PORT MORESBY: A Chinese national was apprehended at the Jackson’s International Airport by PNG Customs officials for having in his possession a laptop that was filled with pornographic pictures and videos here the other day.
PNG Customs Border Security Director Mr Earnest Ilarupa said the individual was travelling from China into Papua New Guinea as a contract worker for a development site near the Vision City Mega Mall in Port Moresby when Customs officials came across his laptop which contained multiple videos and pictures of pornography and other illicit materials.
The Office of Censorship was then contacted to detain the laptop while the offender was released upon bail of K2500 by the PNG Customs Office.
Under section 71(1)(a) of the Censorship Act 1989,any individual in possession of an objectionable publication will be fined K1000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
According to Senior Enforcement Officer Mrs Poveta Posa, the offender is currently out on bail and prosecutions are still in process after issuing the offender a Detention Notice for further investigation.
Meanwhile copies of DVDs and CDs of pornographic nature were confiscated at the Port Moresby wharf by PNG Customs officials who referred the banned materials to the Office of Censorship for destruction.
