THE Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) will investigate alleged financial transactions involving former senior managers of PNG Ports and an Australian businessman, says Prime Minister James Marape. He was responding to a report published on March 2 by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. “This report has serious implications on PNG Ports Corporation,” he said in a statement yesterday. “Hence, I will direct a full investigation by Icac into the allegations.” He also directed the National Intelligence Organisation and International Revenue Commission to investigate the allegations of impropriety and corruption, and to “ask the publishers of the report to tabulate whatever evidence they may have”. “I am very concerned that this report implicates our best-performing State-owned enterprise,” he said.
He said State Enterprises Minister William Duma had started an internal review into the matter. Marape yesterday also denied he had any knowledge of the alleged financial transactions or the relationships between the former senior management of PNG Ports, the PNG Ports operator International Container Terminal Services International or Australian businessman Don Matterson as mentioned in the report circulated online. The joint report was published on March 2 by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It alleged transferring of funds into a Singapore company account which then paid perks to senior officials of the PNG Ports. Marape said he was surprised to read the report published by the foreign media on the alleged financial transactions involving former senior managers of PNG Ports and the Australian businessman. Also read
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