Sandline Mercenaries - Radio Oz 23/4/99


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Radio Oz - World News

  PNG Government recommences Sandline legal action 

  The Papua New Guinea Government has again commenced legal action to
  avoid paying a debt to the Sandline mercenary company.

  The Government owes Sandline at least 30 million dollars -- for the aborted
  1997 deal to hire mercenaries to fight Bougainville rebels.

  An international arbitration panel found last year that P-N-G must pay the debt,
  and an appeal against that ruling to the Queensland Supreme Court failed.

  It's understood a Brisbane law firm has filed notice of a further appeal to the
  Queensland Supreme Court.

  Sandline has said it will begin seizing P-N-G assets to recover its debt -- but
  the P-N-G Government has vowed it will not pay. 
      
       + 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation

 Fri Apr 23 15:15:01 1999 ( AEST ) 

       

 
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