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Media report: Papua New Guinea prime minister served with arrest warrant in fraud probe
CANBERRA, Australia – Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill was served with an arrest warrant on Monday in relation to a fraud case by the country’s anti-corruption body, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
The South Pacific island nation’s anti-corruption unit Task Force Sweep confirmed that an arrest warrant had been served on O’Neill on a charge of official corruption, the ABC reported from the capital Port Moresby.
Neither O’Neill’s office nor a police spokesman could be immediately contacted for comment Monday.
The legal action relates to millions of dollars of alleged payments from the government to a law firm.
A letter apparently signed by O’Neill seeming to authorize some of the payments was produced previously to a corruption inquiry.
O’Neill has said the signature is a forgery.
ABC reported the prime minister was expected to arrive at the police fraud office later Monday for questioning.
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