A local businessman in Daru, Western Province, has been arrested by the National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate in Port Moresby.
Mr Norman Carl May was arrested on Thursday, and charged with four counts of misappropriation, and four counts of conspiracy to defraud the state of a total of seven-million Kina. Norman May owns the May Fuel Distributors in Daru and is also the founder and chairman of the Fly Care Foundation Incorporation. Mr May was arrested following investigations conducted by the National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate upon complaints by concern people in Western Province. In 2013, Western Governor Ati Wobiro signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Norman May on behalf of Fly Care Foundation to use percentage of his Provincial Support Improvement Program funds, District Support Improvement Program and Local Level Government Support Improvement Program funds to be paid into Fly Care Foundation in which Norman May is the sole signatory to the account. It is alleged that a Joint Provincial Budget Priority Committee comprising the Governor and the three Open Members of Parliament in the Province met on November 21, 2013 to approve projects which the three Open Members denied attending the meeting. The list of projects allegedly approved by the J-P-B-P-C was referred to the Acting Provincial Administrator Dr Modowa Gumoi and instructed by the Governor to facilitate the funding of the projects by putting to motion the MOA between the Governor Ati Wobiro and Fly Care Foundation Incorporation. Investigations by detectives from National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate revealed many of the projects have not been completed although funds were allocated. It also revealed that public funds that are supposed to be parked in the Provincial Treasury Office for disbursement has been placed in the hands of an individual and his private company to handle the public funds which is in breach of set guidelines for the application of those funds. Mr May was detained at the Boroko Police cell yesterday after interview the Fraud squad. Mr May is currently out on 10-thousand Kina bail.
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