A Papua New Guinea businessman has told Post Courier that officials in Fiji never consulted him regarding the two females from Fiji who claim that they were abused in PNG.
The businessman has denied knowledge of any physical abuse.
Wishing to remain anonymous, he denied that the two females aged 14 and 21 years were held in a Port Moresby residence against their will.
The PNG businessman said his son who was on school holidays had taken the two females to PNG on December 3rd last year.
He said the 14-year-old and 21 –year-old from Fiji had return tickets booked for March 24th as per their agreements in Fiji with their parents.
He said he bought the tickets as the two wanted to go to PNG for the holidays.
The Post Courier said the businessman, whose four wives included a Fijian woman, has 13 children, including three from the Fijian woman.
The businessman was a former executive of a PNG political party and to date owns lodges in Lae, Port Moresby and Fiji and properties in Australia.
He also said that he put the women in his lodge and told them to work and help so when they return after three months, he would pay them their money to take back to Fiji.
The businessman also revealed that the two were given 200 kina a fortnight and fed and accommodated by his family.
Meanwhile the Fiji Police is waiting for a response from Papua New Guinea authorities regarding the case of the two Fijian nationals. Chief of Intelligence and Investigation ACP Henry Brown says they have written to their counterparts and are expecting a response from them over the next few days.
The investigators are still looking into the travel arrangements of the two and at this stage of the investigation the case is yet to be classified and further comments will be made once more information is available.
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