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Bryan Kramer who was recently charged by Police on allegations of conspiracy to murder the Minister of Petroleum Nixon Duban an d two other persons describes the charges against him as ‘laughable’.   Mr Kramer was arrested last week and locked up in the Boroko cell before he was released on bail. In a media release send to Post-Courier, He said the allegations were clearly invented by Mr Duban in a desperate effort to silence him from informing the public of high-profile corruption in the Government and divert attention from Duban's own criminal prosecution in relation to bribery and fraud charges committed during 2012 General Elections.  “My conscience is clear and so is my record. I'm not surprised or phased by Duban's allegations or the police charge against me,” Mr Kramer told Post-Courier. He said his lawyer has advised him against commenting on the case as the matter is before the Courts, however he would comment on the events that led to his arrest.

A Commentary by SAM KOIM INTRODUCTION Corruption flourishes in secrecy and the ignorance of the people. Shedding light on corruption trends is therefore an integral part of curtailing the spread of this pernicious social disease hence this article. Investigation Task-Force Sweep (ITFS) initially commenced its investigation into the expenditure of development budget at the National Planning Department. The investigation uncovered instances, amongst others, where shell companies (or sometimes called “K2 companies”) were used as fronts to squander public funds. Funds were expended with either no project undertaken or project left incomplete. Detecting the fraud in such simple trend of corruption is easy. A new trend of corruption appears to be emerging in the area of expenditure of development funds. It is rather a complicated and higher level of corruption. This time, well established businesses, even multi-national corporations are used to generate illicit gains for the firms and publi

By DR ALAN MARAT MP In Tuesday’s Budget Session, which was supposed to commence at 2pm, Members of Parliament were kept waiting in the chamber until 4pm. Finance Minister, Tari-Pori MP, Hon. James Marape, followed by the Treasury Minister, Hon. Patrick Pruaitch, walked in. Thereafter the Speaker entered and Parliament commenced meeting. When the Treasurer started delivering his Budget Speech, the Opposition Members had not yet received any budget documentation, despite the speech being on ‘the budget’ ( money plan) for 2015. A little while later copies of the Treasurer’s budget speech were handed out followed by Volume 1 of the Budget documentation (which is on Economic and Development Policies), and a bundle of four Appropriation Bills. Shortly after copies of Volume 2A, 2B and 2C (which are on the 2015 Budget Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for National Government Departments), and 2D (which is on the 2015 Budget Estimates for Statutory Authorities Provincial Governments D

By PAUL REINBARA Bryan Kramer has described allegations by Minister of Petroleum and Member for Madang Nixon Duban that Kramer attempted to assassinate or conspired to kill him as absurd and baseless. Criminal Investigation Division officers are investigating the complaint by Duban against Kramer. Officers leading the investigations obtained a search warrant on Kramer's residence in Madang last week Friday. Duban is claiming Kramer conspired to have him killed at the Polling Counting Centre in Jomba Catholic Parish in Madang when Duban was declared the winner of the 2013 By-Election. Kramer was the runner up in 2013 Madang Open Seat By-Election. The National Court ordered the By-Election after finding Duban guilty of committing bribery and fraud during the 2012 General Elections for the same seat. Kramer, Duban and sixteen other candidates recontested the By-Election in September 2013. Duban was returned, however Kramer has taken it back to Court on allegations of wide-scale vo

By FRANKLIN KOLMA - POST COURIER PRIVATE businessman and administrator of social media entity "PNG News", Bryan Kramer, was arrested yesterday afternoon in Port Moresby on allegations of conspiracy to kill. This was confirmed by NCD Metropolitan Superintendent Andy Bawa yesterday after being contacted by the Post-Courier about the controversial arrest that has since gone viral on social media. Supt Bawa said Mr Kramer was arrested on allegations of conspiracy to commit murder. Supt Bawa said he had only been made aware of the arrest after being contacted by the media, adding that the arrest was prompted by a complaint laid by Madang MP Nixon Duban. The allegations were that Mr Kramer had planned at some point in time to cause the death of Mr Duban, who is Petroleum and Energy Minister in the Peter O’Neill-led Government. Supt Bawa said the allegations were serious and that questioning and further investigations would have to be made before a statement could be rel