A stunning announcement yesterday from none other than the government of Papua New Guinea has put a swathe of Sarawak based logging concerns on notice over allegations of criminal tax evasion and illegal plunder of a foreign country.
It means that whilst these same companies continue to operate above the law back home, where they effectively control key decision makers behind the GPS state government and are even subsidising a mosquito ‘opposition’ party, they at last face being held to account for their crimes elsewhere.
The authorised statement from the PNG’s top prosecutor, Commissioner General Sam Koim, goes directly to the point announcing the plan to audit 20 ‘delinquent’ logging companies in the country over suspected tax evasion – he says he plans to add more companies to the list.