Police officers implicated in money-laundering scheme still missing

TWO senior police officers have remained at large since 2018 after being implicated in a money-laundering syndicate with foreigners in West Sepik, Border divisional commander Chief Supt Peter Philip says.
“These officers, one of them is a senior police intelligence officer, went into hiding after the financial analysis and supervision unit (Fasu) of Bank PNG and Public Prosecutor Pondros Kaluwin demanded police to arrest them for allegedly aiding foreigners to escape out of the country with K400,150,” Chief Supt Philip claimed.
The case was pursued again recently after correspondence refreshed the subject. Chief Supt Philip said PNG Defence Force soldiers manning the PNG-Indonesian border had arrested an Indonesian at the military checkpoint at Wutung village in West Sepik on Jan 12, 2018.
“This Indonesian was found with a bag containing K400,150 cash, the money was in 100 and 50 notes and fully packed in four envelopes. When questioned by the soldiers, the Indonesian said that the money belonged to a Malaysian businessman in Vanimo who was married to a local woman,” Chief Supt Philip said.
“The Malaysian had given the money to the Indonesian who was an employee of a logging company in the province. The Indonesian said that he was told to take the money across the border to give it to another Indonesian who was waiting at Batas Market in the Indonesian territory.
“However the soldiers handed over the Indonesian to police for further questioning and that led to the arrest of the Malaysian.”