{"id":34528,"date":"2021-07-29T18:12:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T09:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/29\/australian-lawyer-arrested-for-third-time-in-papua-new-guinea-over-alleged-100m"},"modified":"2021-07-29T18:12:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T09:12:01","slug":"australian-lawyer-arrested-for-third-time-in-papua-new-guinea-over-alleged-100m-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34528","title":{"rendered":"Australian lawyer arrested for third time in Papua New Guinea over alleged $100m fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say alleged misappropriation of funds the \u2018single biggest fraud\u2019 ever investigated by PNG force<\/p>\n<p>An Australian lawyer has been arrested for the third time in Papua New Guinea over the alleged misappropriation of 268m kina ($AUD104m) from a trust fund linked to the controversial Ok Tedi mine, alongside three others.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Sheppard, a former Queensland crown prosecutor, has previously been charged with eight counts of financial misconduct including money laundering. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/21\/australian-lawyer-arrested-in-papua-new-guinea-over-alleged-100m\">arrested and bailed<\/a> in January and June.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/29\/australian-lawyer-arrested-for-third-time-in-papua-new-guinea-over-alleged-100m\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say alleged misappropriation of funds the \u2018single biggest fraud\u2019 ever investigated by PNG forceAn Australian lawyer has been arrested for the third time in Papua New Guinea over the alleged misappropriation of 268m kina ($AUD104m) from a trust f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34529,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34528\/revisions\/34529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}