in high regard. 2. Rex Paki has apppeared before only the NPF Commission of Inquiry and not the Finance Department COI as alleged. He was never directly involved in the NPF controversy and was only taken to task about an airline ticket that was purchased by former NPF chairman Jimmy Maladina for him to attend a meeting in Brisbane, Australia, on an entirely different matter. Mr Paki was charged with perjury over the airline ticket issue, a charge that was misconstrued to give the impression that he fully benefitted from the NPF corruption funds. He only used the airline ticket without knowing that it had been purchased with NPF funds. 3. Rex Paki was never "intimately involved" in the Paga Hill development as alleged. He is not a director or shareholder and his only involvement was providing professional accounting services to the project developer for which he was duly paid. The project developer has legally obtained a 99-year lease and as part of its efforts to appease the Paga Hill settlers and local leaders, the company has signed an agreement to relocate the settlers to blocks of land at Six Mile, NCD. 4. Rex Paki was not "evasive and dishonest" about his role as liquidator of the Motor Vehicle Insurance Ltd (MVIL). He did not overpay himselft as alleged because his fee was initially agreed to by his lawyer, Kerenga Kua and lawyers for MVIL, which later decided to take court action to recover the money. Due to the misconceptions