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January 27, 2026
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor With all the setbacks of recent years, Vanuatu’s citizenship sale schemes should be dead in the water — instead they are thriving, and geopolitical chaos is playing a part. The citizenship-by-investment sector is the biggest single revenue earner for Vanuatu’s government, but lingering issues of integrity cast a ... <a title="Vanuatu citizenship sales strong despite currency hassles and integrity issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/27/vanuatu-citizenship-sales-strong-despite-currency-hassles-and-integrity-issues/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu citizenship sales strong despite currency hassles and integrity issues">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea has five months remaining to fix its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) systems or face the severe repercussions of being placed on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) “grey list”. The FATF has imposed an October 2025 deadline, and the government is scrambling ... <a title="PNG faces deadline for fixing issues with money laundering and terrorist financing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/02/png-faces-deadline-for-fixing-issues-with-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing/" aria-label="Read more about PNG faces deadline for fixing issues with money laundering and terrorist financing">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2022
By Lorraine Wohi in Port Moresby The Bank of Papua New Guinea’s Financial Analysis and Supervision Unit has reported more than 5000 cases as a result of anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing investigations still awaiting prosecution. Acting governor for BPNG Benny Popoitai said the FASU had identified persons of interest and companies and referred ... <a title="PNG bank agency probes 5000 money-laundering cases – but no prosecutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/26/png-bank-agency-probes-5000-money-laundering-cases-but-no-prosecutions/" aria-label="Read more about PNG bank agency probes 5000 money-laundering cases – but no prosecutions">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s biggest bank — Bank South Pacific with major branch networks across the Pacific region — is the subject of regulatory action by the country’s banking regulator BPNG over failure to comply with anti-money laundering regulations, reports the PNG Post-Courier. The Financial Analysis and Supervision Unit (FASU) of the ... <a title="PNG banking regulator acts against BSP over money-laundering rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/14/png-banking-regulator-acts-against-bsp-over-money-laundering-rules/" aria-label="Read more about PNG banking regulator acts against BSP over money-laundering rules">Read more</a>
