Three more people have been arrested over fraud allegations involving a local Gulf company.
The first arrest was carried out on 2 February in NCD, which saw Luke Damu from Wowobo village, Kikori District, get charged with:
- One count of official corruption
- One count of false pretence
- Four counts of making documents without authority
- Two counts of conspiracy to defraud
- One count of offering bribery and
- One count of misappropriation of K274,250.28 belonging to Gopera Investment Ltd
On 14 February 2018, detectives from the National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate travelled to Kerema, Gulf Province, and arrested three more people on the same crime.
They were interviewed at Kerema Police Station and each of them was charged with two counts of conspiracy to defraud and false pretence under the Criminal Code.
They were escorted back to Port Moresby, to the NFACD office at Konedobu on Friday 16 February, where their charges were processed and later taken to Boroko Police Station and placed in the cells.
The additional three suspects are:
|
No |
NAME |
AGE |
VILLAGE |
DISTRICT |
PROVINCE |
|
|
Aiauke Aburo |
53 |
Sirebi |
Kikori |
Gulf |
|
|
Tomkin Aumari |
54 |
Ubuo |
Kikori |
Gulf |
|
|
Samson Peter |
43 |
Wowobo |
Kikori |
Gulf |
NFACD director, Matthew Damaru, says more arrests will still be made on this matter.
“The suspects are known and arrests will be made soon.”
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