Court allows Sheppard, Salika, others to go home for X’mas

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Court allows Sheppard, Salika, others to go home for X’mas

PORT MORESBY: The National Court has allowed five of the six people charged with misappropriating K260 million belonging to the Western people to travel home for Christmas.

The five were lawyers Greg Sheppard, 65, Gloria Salika, 39, executive assistant Tabitha Malken and directors Boston Kasiman, Edna Oai and Annie Smerewai, who were all out on bail.

The court proceedings were reported b y The National:

5 allowed leave in K260mil case

December 5, 2022The NationalNational

THE National Court has allowed five of the six people charged with misappropriating K260 million belonging to the Western people to travel home for Christmas.
The five were lawyers Greg Sheppard, 65, from Australia; Gloria Salika, 39, from Kulakea village in Western’s South Fly; executive assistant Tabitha Malken from Wosera-Gawi’s Jambitanget village in East Sepik; and, directors Boston Kasiman; Edna Oai; and Annie Smerewai who were out on bail.
Judge Teresa Berrigan set bail conditions for them to comply and one of them was that they would not leave Port Moresby without the court’s permission.
Judge Berrigan granted permission for Sheppard, Malken, Kasiman, Oai and Smerewai to go home for Christmas.
A voir dire (trial within a trial) was conducted last month to verify the legality of the search warrant used by the police investigator in the case to obtain certain documents. After conducting the trial within a trial, Justice Berrigan withdrew herself from further proceeding with the case into the trial proper because she had discovered that one of the witnesses Sheppard intended to call was known to her.
She then had the files transferred to the registry for it to be allocated to another judge.
Sheppard, Salika and Malken were charged with one count of misappropriating K52 million which was allegedly transferred from Western people’s trust account to Young and William Lawyers while the directors; Kasiman, Oai and Smerewai were charged with two counts for allegedly being involved in the transaction of that same money and a K218 million belonging to the people of Western.

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