Cops charge PNG gaming board CEO with misappropriating K900,000
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Cops charge PNG gaming board CEO with misappropriating K900,000
PORT MORESBY: Police have charged National Gaming Control Board (NGCB)
chief executive officer Imelda Agon with conspiring with a former MP to
misappropriate K900,000 allocated for a hospital in Madang.
Details of the case were published by The National:
NGCB boss
charged with fraud
August 24, 2021The NationalMain Stories
NATIONAL Gaming Control Board (NGCB) chief executive officer Imelda Agon
has been charged with conspiring with a former MP to misappropriate K900,000
allocated for a hospital in Madang, police say.
Police special investigation team leader Sgt Elijah Aron said Agon was charged
with defrauding and abusing her office to divert the money allocated for the
Yagaum Rural Hospital to the Madang district treasury operating account on
December 28, 2012.
It was part of the K1.2 million approved by the NGCB for the hospital.
Agon, 49, from Tufa village in Kavieng, New Ireland, was granted bail to appear
before the Waigani District Court for committal proceedings.
Sgt Aron said in December 2011, a project submission of K1.2 million for the
Yagaum Rural Hospital was submitted to the NGCB, which paid an initial K300,000
to the hospital’s bank account on May 2, 2012.
The hospital administration then bought an X-Ray machine and an ultra-sound
scanner.
But Agon allegedly prevented the transfer of the remaining balance of K900,000
to the hospital’s account.
She allegedly diverted the money to the Madang district treasury
operating account.
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