Approximately 75,000 files and emails from Samherji, exposing corruption in the fishing industry in a scandal extending from Iceland to Namibia, Norway and beyond. Since 2019, the Fishrot Files have kicked off a series of investigations and trials that are continuing into 2023.

The emails, reports, documents, presentations and photos dating between 2010 and 2016 expose Samherji's use of bribery and false promises to control the fishing industry, with company operations in Canada, the Faroe Islands, France, Iceland, Germany, Namibia, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the U.K. The dataset is more than twice the size of what was previously released by WikiLeaks.

Research

• Anatomy of a Bribe: A deep dive into an underworld of corruption (Al Jazeera)
• Fishing giant's dirty tricks (Africa Confidential)
• High noon for Fishrot perpetrators (Africa Confidential) (PDF)
• Visselblåsaren som avslöjade fiskfusket jagas – utsatt ör flera mordörsök (Göteborg-Posten)
• The Fishrot scandal (Plateforme Française de Protection des Lanceurs d’Alerte en Afrique)
• Caught in the net: the Fishrot Files (The Namibian)
• An Icelandic fishing company bribed officials in Namibia and used Norway's largest bank to transfer 70 million dollars to a tax haven (Stundin)

Aftermath

• Poisoned over Fishrot: Whistleblower Jóhannes Stefánsson (Yale Global Justice Program)
• Esau reveals co-accused who ‘used my name’ (The Namibian)
• Editorial: Esau pigeoholing himself (The Namibian Sun)
• I'm still poor - Esau (The Namibian Sun)
• Esau shifts blame to late former PS Hiveluah for assigning quotas to Namgomar (Informante)
• Esau points fingers to key figures in explosive testimony (NBC)
• Fishrot police reservist unyielding on bail fight (New Era)
• Bribery allegations over fishing rights rock Iceland and Namibia (The Guardian)
• State hunts Fishrot assets in Dubai (The Namibian)
• Fishrot Scandal: Bribery and corruption in Namibia’s fishing industry (Whistleblower Network News)
• DNB in trouble over Fishrot-related payments to Dubai (Kveikur)
• Samherjaskjölin (Heimildin)
• Timely and engaging ‘Fishrot’ (The Namibian)
• Fjallað um glataðar skatt­tekjur í nýrri bók um Sam­herja­málið (Visir)

Limited Distribution

Due to the presence of PII, the data is only being made available to journalists and researchers. Because the dataset is restricted, it is more complete than what was previously offered by WikiLeaks.

References

• Wikipedia

Editor Notes

This copy of the Fishrot Files was provided directly by the source and is restricted at his request due to PII concerns. Because the dataset is restricted, it is more complete than what was previously offered by WikiLeaks.