Finance Department

O'Neill, Jubilee University and Kambanei: A match made in heaven

On 25 Jan, 2016 By ACTNOW

Source: PNG Exposed

Disgraced Finance Secretary slammed in COI Report gets PhD & Teaching Fellowship in Australia

On 27 May, 2015 By ACTNOW

Maladina is nailed for the NPF Saga.

But the 2010 Department of Finance Commission of Inquiry found more than K780 million stolen and the report has sat for more than 5 years collecting dust without the recommendations being implemented and those responsible brought to justice.

EMTV news edited to remove corruption story embarrassing to the government

On 11 Mar, 2015 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Exposed

Last Thursday, the 5th of March, EM TV featured on its primetime 6pm television news bulletin a story about the massive K780 million Finance Department fraud.

Thursday was the fifth anniversary of the tabling of a Commission of Inquiry report into the fraud.

Birthday Bash to mark Finance Department Inquiry inaction

On 02 Mar, 2015 By ACTNOW

Media Release

The Finance Department Commission of Inquiry uncovered massive fraud involving law firms and senior bureaucrats. K780 million of public money was stolen over a five-year period but nobody has been prosecuted for their crimes and none of the monies have been recovered.

This Thursday, March 5^th, the community advocacy group, ACT NOW! is staging a “Birthday Bash” at the Holiday Inn to mark the fifth anniversary of the Commission Report being tabled in Parliament.

PNG gets moving on scourge of corruption

On 02 Dec, 2013 By Tim

Comment from ACT NOW!: Lets not forget O'Neill has NOT acted to revoke the illegal SABL leases. That remains a big blot on his anti-corruption credentials!!

By Rowan Callick in The Australian

PAPUA New Guinea's Supreme Court has overturned a three-year injunction preventing the publication of an 812-page commission of inquiry into false compensation scams that cost the country more than $300 million.

Reminder of earlier findings of fraud and incompetence in Dept of Lands

On 14 Dec, 2011 By tok stret

While the Commission of Inquiry into Special Agriculture and Business Leases continues, revealing the layers of corruption and incompetence in the allocation of the 99-year SAB leases, the PNGExposed blog has republished the findings of an earlier Commission of Inquiry which reported in 2009 the Department of Lands was corrupt and incompetent. Its recommendations for a full Commission of Inquiry into DoL were ignored….

Important progress in the people's fight against corruption

On 11 Aug, 2011 By Effrey

Papua New Guinea has a new government, and with it has come some very welcome progress in the campaign to stop the stealing of public money by corrupt politicians and public servants.

Another set back for Finance Inquiry probe

On 31 Jan, 2011 By rait man

The findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Finance Department which uncovered the theft of over K730 million from the public purse by prominent lawyers and public servants, look set to continue to gather dust because of the suspicious failure of the government to reappoint judge Mark Sevua.

PMs backflip smacks of opportunism

On 26 May, 2010 By tok stret With 3 Comments

The Prime Minister's decision to reinstate the financial powers of Minister for Planning, Paul Teinsten, seems to have more to do with political opportunism than good governance and sends all the wrong signals on corruption.

Minister Teinsten's financial powers were removed in response to serious allegations of fraud and mismanagement in his Department.

The Paraka Scams

On 21 May, 2010 By rait man With 4 Comments

"The Paraka Scams" is the name being given on the internet to the findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Finance Department, which ran from 2006 until 2009.

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