John Kaputin
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On Tax Count
Former PNG Minister for Justice, Mr John Kaputin, will appear in a Port Moresby court on November 28 to answer a charge of having failed to produce taxation in formation for the New Guinea Development Corporation. He is company secretary.
Mr Kaputin, whose place in the ministry was terminated by the Chief Minister with the support of the House of Assembly, has pleaded not guilty. When the matter first came up in court on October 31, Mr Kaputin was not in court and was fined $35 ex parte. The magistrate invali dated the proceedings soon after when Mr Kaputin turned up and claimed he had mistakenly gone to the wrong court.