The horse mackerel are real. They swim in enormous schools in the cold Atlantic waters off Africa’s southwest coast. Most adult fish are about the size of a ruler by the time they are scooped into the vast nets of fishing trawlers, then flash-frozen, gutted, and packaged in plastic wrap to be sold as far away as Scandinavia and Japan. They are delicious roasted whole, with lemon and rosemary, or sliced raw with rice, ginger and soy sauce.
Walvis Bay is a harbour town in the middle of Namibia’s long coastline. There’s not a lot else going on there. For several years, Stefansson did little more than work, sleep and run. Business was booming. It helped that Samherji had worked out how to pay almost no tax in Namibia, which Stefansson says he was a little unsure about, but he apparently thought that this was how big multinational companies do things and he did not ask questions.
Stefansson says he knows the bribe happened — because he helped to pay it. “I was the man on the ground.”Where the bodies are buried Rumours spread that he was an alcoholic and addicted to drugs — false rumours, Stefansson clarifies — and he claims he received threats from senior Cape Town gangsters who are deeply enmeshed in the illegal fishing industry.
PPLAAF helped Stefansson figure out what to do with all the information he had gathered. Working with Wikileaks, Al Jazeera and two Icelandic media outlets, they prepared a story that would go off like a depth charge in the middle of Namibia’s 2019 general election campaign.Fishrot, as the scandal has been dubbed, is the biggest corruption scandal in Namibia’s history.
Stefansson, at home in Iceland, is watching the developments closely. Blowing the whistle has upended his life. He is still worried about his safety, because he says his documents are only the tip of a rotten iceberg — there is yet more wrongdoing that he is planning to expose.
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