Task Force Sweep’s integrity compromised.

By PNG Echo The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) has raised serious questions about the integrity of anti-corruption agency, Task Force Sweep (TFS) and its Chairman, Sam Koim, after, TFS exonerated expatriate businessman Gudmundur Fridriksson and his companies and associates who are the developers of the controversial Paga Hill estate. In a press statement accompanying a 57-page report released today, Dr Kristian Laslett, who heads ISCI’s Papua New Guinea Research, claims that errors in the Task Force Sweep assessment are “seismic” and “can’t be put down to mere ignorance or inexperience.” In October 2012, ISCI lodged a complaint with Task Continue reading Task Force Sweep’s integrity compromised.

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Anti-corruption? I don’t think so

By PNG Echo While corruption is a problem in PNG, the anti-corruption movements it has spawned are proving to be an even greater one. The recent launching of a Facebook site, PNG Anti-Corruption Movement for Change (PNGACMC) gave its founders pause for thought (at least it should have) as they provided a forum for black hatred expressed in the form of threats of extreme sexual violence and torture by one contributor against another. The threats were so horrific and disgustingly graphic that one person wrote it was …the worse thing she had ever read on Facebook. The founders and leaders Continue reading Anti-corruption? I don’t think so

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