By Lagi Keresoma\/<\/p>\n
Apia, SAMOA \u2013 25 April 2024:<\/strong> A complaint has been lodged against a police officer who allegedly forged the signature of a guarantor in a loan application with the Samoa National Provident Fund (SNPF).<\/p>\n The Chief Executive Officer of SNPF confirmed an internal investigation into the matter has been completed and refrained from disclosing further information as the matter is now with the police.<\/p>\n The complainant confirmed with\u00a0Talamua\u00a0<\/em>that he and his wife have had several meetings with the SNPF legal team over the issue and his name has been removed as a guarantor.<\/p>\n However, they said that the fact remains that his name was forged to guarantee a loan is an offence hence the complaint.<\/p>\n The matter was first brought to the complainant\u2019s attention last month when his wife went to check on his account with SNPF and realized that he had guaranteed a $235,000 tala loan.<\/p>\n SNPF documents show the date and month he signed as a guarantor, however, the complainant said that he was on an overseas working assignment at the time he was supposed to have signed as a guarantor.<\/p>\n The Deputy Police Commissioner Papalii Monalisa Tiai Keti has yet to respond to queries about any investigation conducted by police into the complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Lagi Keresoma\/ Apia, SAMOA \u2013 25 April 2024: A complaint has been lodged against a police officer who allegedly forged the signature of a guarantor in a loan application with the Samoa National Provident Fund (SNPF). The Chief Executive Officer of SNPF confirmed an internal investigation into the matter has been completed and refrained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[188],"tags":[3778,59,3779,3777],"class_list":["post-23331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-order","tag-complaint-against-police-officer","tag-featured","tag-forged-signature","tag-snpf-loan"],"yoast_head":"\n