Investigation Unit

By Timo Shihepo | 15 April 2021 A FIRM owned by corruption-accused James Hatuikulipi and former minister of justice Sacky Shanghala allegedly scored N$3,1 million...

By Shinovene Immanuel | 6 April 2021 DOCUMENTS submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) show how former minister of justice Sacky Shanghala instructed a Fishrot...

By Khadija Sharife (OCCRP), Mark Anderson (OCCRP), and The Namibian | 2 April 2021 A few days after Christmas in 2016, two men met in...

By Shinovene Immanuel | 24 February 2021 BUSINESSMAN Olavi Hamutumwa's company was paid N$800 000 as a 'facilitation fee' to secure a fishing quota from...

By Shinovene Immanuel | 26 February 2021 WHEN one of Namibia’s wealthiest businessmen, the late Werner List, donated six of his farms to the Sam...

By Shinovene Immanuel | 19 February 2020   SWAPO member of parliament Tobie Aupindi is the latest ruling party politician to be linked to the Fishrot...

By Sonja Smith and Shinovene Immanuel | 5 February 2021 WORKERS at a farm owned by businessman David ‘Dawie’ Moller reaped an unusual harvest towards...

By Parcival Weijnen and Bram Logger | 4 November 2020 THE modest office building in Valkenburg, a small town in the Dutch municipality of Katwijk,...

By Shinovene Immanuel | 15 October 2020 Fishing businessman Adriaan Louw had an interview with The Namibian’s Shinovene Immanuel last week on wide-ranging issues such...

By Shinovene Immanuel | 15 October 2020 BUSINESSMAN Adriaan (‘AJ’) Louw says he rejected the National Fishing Corporation of Namibia’s proposal to terminate a partnership...

By Shinovene Immanuel and Victoria Wolf | 11 September 2020 BRIBERY accused Icelandic seafood company Samherji paid politically connected businessman Vaino Nghipondoka’s entities around N$21...

By Eliaser Ndeyanale | 1 September 2020 THE state-owned National Fishing Corporation of Namibia (Fishcor) paid former fisheries minister Bernhard Esau’s technical adviser Stephen Mbithi...

By Mathias Haufiku and Tileni Mongudhi | 19 August 2020 MORE than N$51 million fisheries funds intended to uplift poor communities and to generate funds...

By Shinovene Immanuel and Eliaser Ndeyanale | 17 August 2020 LAWYER Marén de Klerk allegedly used Fishrot money to pay for expenses linked to Swapo’s...

By Tileni Mongudhi and Mathias Haufiku | 5 August 2020 MORE questions have been raised about the Government Institutions Pension Fund’s investment adviser, RisCura, over...

By Shinovene Immanuel, Lazarus Amukeshe and Victoria Wolf | 30 July 2020 INVESTMENT firms Pointbreak Wealth Management and IJG Securities say they were not beneficiaries...

By Shinovene Immanuel, Lazarus Amukeshe and Werner Menges | 22 July 2020 TWO Namibian companies implicated in the Fishrot scandal transferred close to N$100 million...

By Margot Gibbs | 21 July 2020 LEAKED documents and the affidavit of Fishrot whistleblower Johannes Stefansson suggest that seafood company Samherji used a host...