The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape says the country's corruption watchdog will investigate the state-owned PNG Ports Corporation in response to revelations by the ABC.
, in a joint investigation with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, revealed questionable payments involving officials at PNG Ports, which is currently receiving more than half a billion dollars in Australian government funding.
Mr Marape's statement said he had also "called for our National Intelligence Organisation and International Revenue Commission to investigate the allegations of impropriety and corruption". Former PNG Ports official Stanley Alphonse has denied receiving benefits from an Australian consultant to a big PNG Ports contractor.The ABC's Background Briefing and the OCCRP revealed questionable payments involving then top PNG Ports officials Fego Kiniafa and Stanley Alphonse around the time a major contract was awarded to a multinational ports operator, ICTSI in 2017.
There were purchases of 4WD vehicles labelled with Mr Kiniafa's name, and his wife confirmed they stayed for free in a Gold Coast holiday house owned by a Matheson-linked company. Mr Alphonse, who was named in bank records as receiving $30,000, denied receiving any benefit from Mr Matheson.
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