THE body of a man with dual Australian and British citizenship has been found dumped near an oil refinery in Port Moresby.
Police say they are treating the death of John Hulse, 62, as a murder.
Mr Hulse's body was found by security guards near the entrance to the Napa Napa oil refinery in the Papua New Guinean capital on Monday night.
The investigating officer in charge of the investigation, Supt Joseph Tondop, was quoted in local newspapers saying Mr Hulse had been stabbed.
Another policeman, Superintendent Dominic Kakas, said the case was being treated as the wilful murder of an expatriate.
He said Mr Hulse, who lived on a boat moored at Port Moresby's Royal Papua Yacht Club, was declared missing on Sunday.
On Saturday, Mr Hulse received a phone call from a person claiming to have his passport, which he had lost the day before, and told friends he was going to get it.
He went to meet the person alone, and his car was found abandoned about two hours later at nearby Koukou Village.
"He never made it back to his boat where his friends, fearing for his life, reported the matter," Supt Kakas said.
His body was found by the side of the road near the refinery, after villagers from the nearby Roku Village back-burned grass along the road.
Mr Hulse was operations manager for Alliance Group Ltd, a catering company providing food to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant workers.
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