PNG prime minister denies connection to suitcase full of cash found as voting starts

The prime minister's son was arrested by police but released without charge, after police allegedly found a suitcase with AU$650,000 on another traveller

Papua New Guinea's prime minister James Marape has denied any connection to a suitcase containing PGK1.56m (AU$650,000) in cash that police found in Hela province, just as voting in the country's election was about to start.

Mospal Marape, the son of the prime minister, James Marape, was arrested after being found allegedly travelling with a man carrying a suitcase full of cash totalling PGK1.56m (AU$650,000) to Hela province, where voting in the country's election kicked off this week.