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Post Courier
Tue, 9 Feb 2010
PORT MORESBY, PNG --- Papua New Guinea’s biggest private sector body – the PNG Chamber of Commerce and Industry has joined Port Moresby residents in hailing the police operation that recaptured high profile prison escapee, William Nanua Kapris.
Kapris was captured at Freeway Lodge – an establishment in Port Moresby on Saturday (06 Feb).
After a 48 hour interrogation by police, PNG’s most wanted man was moved to the Bomana jail, from where he escaped about four weeks ago.
When he escaped with 11 other hardcore criminals from the Bomana maximum security jail, the business community including the banks went on full alert and stepped up their security measures, fearing that he and his band of escapees might pull another job.
The National Security Council convened an urgent meeting and declared that Kapris would be recaptured in the next 48 hours but that did not materialise, prompting the Government to step in by providing K1.5 million to fund the special operation to recapture Kapris and his cohorts.
The investigation dragged on and police, to win public co-operation, placed a K10, 000 reward on Kapris’s head.
At the police interrogation, he is believed to have given names of high profile people in PNG who he claimed were behind all the crimes he committed.
Police have arrested and charged eight persons that either helped the prisoners to escape or took care of them while they were on the run.
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