Australian lawyer arrested in Papua New Guinea over alleged $100m fraud
by Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby and Ben Doherty Pacif from on (#5D40R)
Greg Sheppard has been charged over the alleged defrauding of trust funds from the controversial Ok Tedi mine
An Australian lawyer, Greg Sheppard, has been arrested in Port Moresby over an alleged 268m kina (A$96m) fraud involving trust funds from the controversial Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea.
Sheppard, a former Queensland crown prosecutor, was arrested in Port Moresby on Thursday and charged with two counts of conspiracy and two of false pretence over the alleged defrauding of a fund established to assist impoverished communities in PNG's Western Province.
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