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    Former PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill Arrested, ABC Reports

    By Ed Johnson
    May 24, 2020, 5:58 AM GMT+7


    Peter O'Neill Photographer: David Moir/Bloomberg

    Former Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O’Neill has been arrested over allegations of misappropriation and corruption, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.

    O’Neill was arrested at Jackson’s International Airport in Port Moresby on Saturday after flying back from Australia, where he’d been stranded due to the coronavirus lockdown, according to the report.

    O’Neill resigned as prime minister in May last year after facing a potential no-confidence motion due to dissatisfaction over a recently signed natural-gas agreement with France’s Total SA, which sparked a wave of ministerial resignations. When police tried to arrest him in October last year, he said allegations of corruption leveled against him were “false and fabricated.”
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    Papua New Guinea police arrest former PM Peter O'Neill over alleged corruption

    PNG police say O’Neill was arrested over the $14m purchase of two generators allegedly without parliamentary approval

    Former Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O’Neill has been arrested over the purchase of two generators from Israel. Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA
    Papua New Guineapolice have arrested former prime minister Peter O’Neill over the alleged purchase of generators from Israel without parliamentary approval, according to the country’s assistant police commissioner.
    O’Neill was arrested on Saturday at the main airport of Port Moresby, PNG’s capital, after returning from Australia, and brought in for questioning, assistant crimes commissioner Hodges Ette said in a statement.

    The assistant police commissioner’s statement said O’Neill was accused of directing the 50m kina ($14m) payment for two generators from Israel without following the country’s public financial management law, without parliamentary approval and without putting the sale to tender.
    The statement gave no further details about the generators or the identity of the alleged seller.



    The statement cited evidence of “misappropriation, abuse of office and official corruption”.
    A spokesman for the prime minister, James Marape, who took over from O’Neill, was not immediately available to comment.
    O’Neill
    quit as prime minister in May last year after seven years in the job amid a wave of discontent over a perceived lack of wealth flowing from major resource projects.

    The commissioner’s statement said O’Neill would be allowed bail, and because he had just arrived from Australia he was expected to be quarantined at his own residence for 14 days, under protocols to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
    O’Neill had been the
    subject of an arrest warrant in Papua New Guinea since October on suspicion of “official corruption”, although officials in the country did not disclose what he was wanted for.



    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/24/papua-new-guinea-police-arrest-former-pm-peter-oneill-over-alleged-corruption
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