Clement Kaupa. From high stakes gambling to designer drugs, high profile prostitution and the import of counterfeit products, the PNG underworld is being ruled by persons from a certain Asian nationality. These are no longer rumours; a reliable source with inside knowledge confirmed these highly illicit activities to be happening with blatant disregard for the laws of the land.
High class prostitutes from Asia are a key part of the underworld scene. The source, who wished anonymity for apparent reasons , claimed these activities are perpetrated by resident persons from a single Asian nationality. The real shocker drops in the amounts loaned-out.
According to the source, cold-hard cash from anywhere between K to K20, even more are known to exchange hands at the ease and speed it takes to make a phone call. It does not end there; the source said an individual can owe these people excessive amounts in additional loans at any one time.
A startling number of high profile nationals are already entangled in the sticky-sweet web spawned through subtlety and deception. Short of disclosing names, the source implied the majority of these persons to be in strategic positions at executive levels of leading public and private institutions. The source said these persons borrow their way into dual servitude and are no longer serving the interests of Papua New Guinea alone.
And that is one facet of the operation. Counterfeit products is another. The source said fake products are circulating in bulk but ingenuously saturated among genuine items throughout Papua New Guinea. The source told of an individual of that nationality who had financed the counterfeiting, shipment and distribution of Pall Mall cigarettes a while back.
