{"id":46068,"date":"2022-07-06T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/06\/png-prime-minister-denies-connection-to-suitcase-full-of-cash-found-as-voting-starts"},"modified":"2022-07-06T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:01:29","slug":"png-prime-minister-denies-connection-to-suitcase-full-of-cash-found-as-voting-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46068","title":{"rendered":"PNG prime minister denies connection to suitcase full of cash found as voting starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister\u2019s son was arrested by police but released without charge, after police allegedly found a suitcase with AU$650,000 on another traveller<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea\u2019s 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\u2019s election was about to start.<\/p>\n<p>Mospal Marape, the son of the prime minister, James Marape, was arrested<strong> <\/strong>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\u2019s election kicked off this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/06\/png-prime-minister-denies-connection-to-suitcase-full-of-cash-found-as-voting-starts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister\u2019s son was arrested by police but released without charge, after police allegedly found a suitcase with AU$650,000 on another travellerPapua New Guinea\u2019s prime minister James Marape has denied any connection to a suitcase containing P&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3159,"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-46068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46068","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\/3159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46069,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46068\/revisions\/46069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}