The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) says Icelandic investigators and prosecutors are in Namibia to investigate the role played by their citizens in the N$300 million Fishrot corruption scandal. ACC director general Paulus Noa confirmed the visit on Friday. He said the Icelandic team is assisting the Namibian government in uncovering the potential involvement of Icelandic fishing...
The president of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), McHenry Venaani, is urging Iceland’s prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, to reconsider a proposed renewable energy grant worth 100 million Icelandic krona (N$131 million) to the Fishrot-tainted fishing company Samherji. He says this money should rather be channelled to the Namibian fishermen who lost their livelihoods due to...
A local analyst and an official from Transparency International have criticised a recent decision by Iceland’s Energy Fund to grant fishing and fish-processing company Samherji a subsidy of 100 million Icelandic krona (about N$13 million). Samherji, which is tied to the ‘Fishrot’ fishing quota corruption scandal in Namibia, is reported to have received the grant...