Two former public servants and a local businessman were charged with misappropriating K473, 575 belonging to the Anglimp South Waghi District in Jiwaka Province.

• Paul Guli, 38 from Western Highlands Province worked as District Treasurer.
• Gogumi Kimin, 52 from Jiwaka Province worked as the District Administrator.
• Andrew Kama Alake, 40 from Jiwaka Province is a businessman and leader.

Mr Kimin submitted various claims to the District Office, which were  authorised by Mr Kama. The claims were for vehicle hire, road maintenance and travel allowances. Mr Alake also submitted fraudulent claims and received payments, and the dishonestly applied the sums to his own use.

Guli and Kimin went on to sign and approve the payment of a sum of K473,575. From that payment, Kama received K105,400 for his claims, Guli received K2000 and Kimin received K107,000. Kama received another payment of K60,000 again for fraudulent claims for another vehicle hire and K10,000 for independence celebration.

All these payments were made from the District Services Improvement Programme (DSIP) without the approval form the Joint-District planning and Budget Priority Committee (now District Development Authority Board).

The Court found that when Guli and Kimin approved the various payments of K473,575, they were in breach of the Public Finance Management Act and the Financial Instructions, and when they benefited from the payments, they dishonestly applied the money to their own use and the use of others.

The court also found that when Kama received payments for the fraudulent claims, he dishonestly applied the sum of K165,400 to his own use and the use of others and that the funds were not used in its intended purposes.

The court sentenced Kimin and Kama to five years in prison respectively because the money they misappropriated was large. Guli was sentenced to two years for Guli because his culpability in the offence was lesser then Kimin and Kama. In 2022, the Supreme Court refused an appeal against these convictions.