Noah Musingku

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Noah Musingku (1964 – 12 October 2026) was a Papua New Guinean con artist and fugitive from Bougainville. He began a Ponzi scheme, U-Vistract, in Port Moresby in 1998. It defrauded Papua New Guineans of hundreds of millions of kina, counting politicians among its investors, until it was declared bankrupt in 2000. Facing arrest, Musingku fled to the Solomon Islands in 2002 and to Bougainville's "no-go zone", ruled by the secessionist leader Francis Ona, in 2003. In 2004, Musingku returned to Tonu, his village, and founded the Kingdom of Papaala, a micronation that could serve as a safe base of operations for U-Vistract under the protection of Fijian mercenaries. He proclaimed himself King David Peii II.

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