Paul Paraka Photo: PNGExposed
Convicted Papua New Guinea lawyer, Paul Paraka, has filed his fourth attempt to get bail after being imprisoned in May last year.
He was jailed for 20 years at the Bomana Correctional Institute for misappropriating tens of millions of dollars of state money.
Paraka is before a three person Supreme Court bench next week after the earlier bail hearings were before a single Supreme Court judge.
In his earlier pleas for release, he has cited an ongoing heart condition.
Paraka, who had operated his own eponymous law firm, one of the largest in PNG, was convicted of swindling 162 million kina, or about $US46 million dollars, in government funds.
The offences extended back to 2007.
Justice Teresa Berrigan, in sentencing Paraka last year, referred to it as a case of "enormous magnitude, despicable greed and incalculable loss to the people of Papua New Guinea".