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Former PNG PM Somare named as recipient in Singapore money laundering case.

Pacific Beat 

By Pacific affairs reporter Liam Fox

Posted Fri at 6:33pm

Sir Michael - Prime Mnister 2002 -2012 of PNG

Lim Ai Wah and her American husband Thomas Doerhman were sentenced to jail in Singapore yesterday after being convicted of falsification of accounts and transferring the benefits of criminal conduct.

The State Court heard the pair transferred $US784,000 ($1.04 million) into Sir Michael Somare's Singapore bank account in 2010, as part of an attempt to set up a number of community colleges in Papua New Guinea.

Sam Koim, the chairman of Papua New Guinea's anti-corruption squad Taskforce Sweep, said his team had been working with Singaporean authorities on the case.

"It's a case that we've been looking forward to, because it's part of a major investigation that my team has conducted," he said.

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