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Bank of South Pacific chairman breaches tenure limits

Angus Grigg

The ASX-listed BSP Financial Group, the largest bank in the Pacific, is in danger of losing its chairman just weeks after Papua New Guinea’s financial crime agency demanded the resignation of its chief executive over breaches of anti-money laundering laws.

The lender, which trades as Bank of South Pacific and has a market value of $2.3 billion, has breached PNG’s prudential standards by allowing its chairman, Kostas Constantinou, to serve in the role for more than six consecutive years.

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Angus Grigg is an investigative reporter based in Sydney. He has worked as a foreign correpondent in China and Indonesia, and has won two Walkley Awards. Connect with Angus on Twitter. Email Angus at agrigg@afr.com

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