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OPERATION RAUSIM CORRUPTION AT PNGTA 2022 & BEYOND By Lyein Ben Yalo, Port Moresby, Sunday 23rd October 2022. PNGTA  Union Executives who have been hiding under the banner of PNGTA and turning the union office into a den of thieves and thugs have been arrested by police and all union vehicles and other assets have grounded, surrendered and impounded!  The National President Mr. Aita Sanangepe was arrested and charged but was released on a K4,000 bail. More arrests will be made. PNGTA members and Teachers in NCD are preparing to petition the Industrial Registrar to adhere to the teachers struggle to rescue their only registered voice, and their  watchdog and their only source of refuge and shelter from abuse, mismanagement, lack of performance, corruption and other illegal activities conducted by the so called executives of the union in  broad daylight.  The Industrial Registrar, as being the only authorized government agency being the custodian of all the  registered trade unions i

PNG minister, police hit out at Australia over extradition request for alleged fraudster and Cairns resident Samson Jubi A Papua New Guinea government minister and top justice officials say they are "extremely frustrated" with Australia for harbouring a Cairns resident wanted for one of the biggest alleged frauds in the country's legal history. Source:  https://www.abc.net.au In an early test for the Albanese government's Pacific strategy, PNG Immigration Minister Bryan Kramer and the country's national police force have spoken out to the ABC about "unacceptable" delays in Australia's handling of an extradition request for PNG citizen Samson Jubi. Australia has spent 18 months considering a draft request to extradite Mr Jubi, a Cairns resident who PNG police say is a chief suspect in a fraud case scheduled for trial in two weeks. Mr Jubi, a lawyer and businessman w