GENESIS OF A DECEITFUL CARRIER – PETER O’NEILL

By ROIT S MULAN

Peter O’Neill hatched out of Goroka. All the businesses that Peter O’Neill himself started never survived a year. He was a failed businessman in all senses.

After having numerous failures in Goroka, he decided to sell his last business to Simon Sia, the owner of Bintangor and relocate to Port Moresby. It was all perfect settlement -O’Neill doctored the financial records in such a way that the business was debt free. After purchasing the business, Sia discovered that the business had various debts totalling to almost a million kina. Sia tried to take O’Neill to Court but O’Neill protracted the court proceedings (sounds familiar?) and further cloistered himself within the corridors of power at Waigani. Bire Kimisopa knows it all as he was Sia’s accountant at that time.

Peter O’Neill discovered that the new manure to grow his business was POLITICS and PROCEEDS OF FRAUD. He would start up a business and use his political connections to channel money into that business. There was never a natural manure. Remington Technology was his father’s business that he took over after his death.

Former PM Bill Skate made O’Neill head of Pacific Finance, which managed the state-owned enterprises: the Motor Vehicle Insurance Corporation, the PNG Banking Corporation and the National Provident Fund (NPF superannuation), all of which nearly collapsed a few years later. If Sir Mekere, after taking over from Skate, did not reform those SOEs, none of them would exist today.

The Commission of Inquiry into the NPF failure reported that, in 2002, O’Neill had benefitted from suspect transactions, and should be investigated for perjury. This is what the NPF Commission of Inquiry said about Peter O’Neill:
“…the commission made a thorough study of Port Moresby First National Real Estate’s accounts and traced all moneys paid in and out on account of Mr O’Neill. This conclusively showed that Mr O’Neill had definitely benefitted from the proceeds of the NPF Tower fraud. It also showed that, despite his denial’s, Mr O’Neill is the beneficial owner of PMFNRE and that Mr Sullivan and Mr Awela are his nominee shareholders.It is quite clear that there is a relationship between Mr Maladina and Mr O’Neill whereby they have benefitted jointly from the NPF Tower fraud.”

O’Neill was eventually arrested and charged with seven counts of misappropriation and one of conspiracy relating to massive losses of funds belonging to NPF.

His criminal case was however compromised at the District Court. O’Neill used Magistrate his tribal magistrate Pinson Pindipia (name sound familiar in Paraka-gate?) to talk to his fellow Magistrate, Mekeo Gauli who was hearing the case. As per the prior arrangement, Pato was instructed to make a no-case submission. The prosecution established that O'Neill had tried to suggest without proof that he had sold Port Moresby First National Real Estate in 1998 but a company document dated the year 2000 had his signature on it as a director and his wife was also a director and financial transactions from the real estate company were traced to O’Neill’s own accounts. (Is he not doing the same for his other companies, being a beneficial owner?)

But Pato told the court there was no connection between O'Neill and the real estate company or any evidence that money paid to the firm was received by his client. Despite the overwhelming evidence, O’Neill’s case was mysteriously struck out for lack of evidence. Outside the court, O'Neill thanked his lawyer (Rimbink Pato), family and supporters and expressed his relief the case was finally over after seven years. He had claimed the charges were "politically motivated" (sounds familiar?) but said he held no animosity against anyone and was thankful PNG had a vibrant judicial system where justice prevailed.

A referral was made to the Public Prosecutor by the Police Prosecutions for a possible ex-officio indictment. The Public Prosecutor considered that the link between NPF and O’Neill was his real estate company PMFNRE of which his maternal uncle Jack Awela was the Director/Shareholder. In order to have O’Neill hanged for good this time, Mr Awela was intended to be arrested and charged to be a co-conspirator of O’Neill. O’Neill’s bug at the Public Prosecutors office tipped him off on the imminent possibility.

Believing in rumours as he always does, O’Neill played the sordid game of falsifying his maternal uncle Awela’s death. A graveyard with the name engraved at Jokey Joy Cemetery in Goroka, death certificate with the name on it, an obituary notice in the newspaper announcing his death –all seem perfectly well to establish that his uncle had suddenly ceased living. All evidentiary materials produced to the Public Prosecutor, case closed……O’Neill knew why he challenged his critics to produce fresh evidence when he was challenged on the NPF recently. The fact of the matter is -JACK AWELA IS STILL ALIVE and is currently on one of O’Neill’s companies’ payroll. Ask a close relative of O’Neill from Pangia and they will tell you.

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