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Task Force Sweep’s integrity compromised.

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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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Smear Campaigns and dirty tactics: But who’s funding Koim’s litigation?

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By PNG Echo Smear campaigns always smack of desperation.   But a smear campaign against a journalist…? That must be the epitome of desperation.   But that’s what’s happened in PNG in the past week. Certain anti-government forces have a near social media monopoly where they attempt to control and manipulate their followers with practises such as saturation, social engineering, audience packing and censorship of opposing opinions. The use of fake identities and the courting of the loony fringe are some of their other questionable tactics. But to attack another journalist…? It’s a ham-fisted attempt at censorship of the media (other than Continue reading Smear Campaigns and dirty tactics: But who’s funding Koim’s litigation?→

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