Former deputy Finance Secretary, Jacob Yafai, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison by the National Court for his role on the misuse of more than K41.8 million in public funds paid to the controversial law firm, Paul Paraka Lawyers. T...

The three Commissioners who will lead the newly created Independent Commission Against Corruption were finally sworn in on 4 July 2023, and will now start work. This historic event comes more than two-and-a-half years after the legislation t...

The IRC has announced a major logging company is to pay K140 million in fines and back taxes after being investigated for illegal tax evasion. The company is the first to be penalised since the IRC published a damning assessment of logging com...

Prominent lawyer Paul Paraka has been convicted of stealing K162 million from the State between 2007 and 2011.  The monies were paid by the Department of Finance to companies owned and operated by Paraka as part of an even bigger fraud th...

The PNG Forest Authority has announced a twelve-month moratorium on the issuing of new Forest Clearance Authorities and an audit of all existing projects. This is one of a series of demands made by ACT NOW! to the new Forest Minister to addres...

Photo: Presentation of education and awareness materials to the Michael Somare library at the Universtity of Papua New Guinea - April 2022. On 12th October ACT NOW delivered 1,000 copies of 34 different education and awareness materials a...

Papua New Guinea’s two largest banks, Bank South Pacific (BSP) and Kina Bank have taken positive steps towards ending their financing for destructive forest logging. Kina Bank has released a new policy that prohibits financing for commercial l...

The IRC has signalled its intention to intensify scrutiny of the logging industry after it published a damning assessment of logging company tax evasion, transfer pricing and financial misreporting.  ACT NOW! has been lobbying the governm...

The Media Council of PNG, Transparency International and the European Union anounce the launch of the Investigative Journalsim Awards (photo: EU) The Media Council of PNG in partnership with Transparency International PNG and the European Unio...

The law paving the way for the creation of an Independent Commission Against Corruption was finally passed by Parliament on 12 November 2020. ACT NOW! has been strenuously advocating for the introduction of a new anti-corruption body since 201...