{"id":218274,"date":"2025-12-27T22:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-uk-firm-sues-samherji-for-n18-billion-over-fishrot-scandal\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:43:07","slug":"namibia-uk-firm-sues-samherji-for-n18-billion-over-fishrot-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-uk-firm-sues-samherji-for-n18-billion-over-fishrot-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: UK Firm Sues Samherji for N$18 Billion Over Fishrot Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>A United Kingdom-based debt collection company has reportedly sued Icelandic fishing company Samherji for US$1.11 billion (about N$18.5 billion) over claims tied to the &#8220;Fishrot&#8221; scandal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Icelandic publication Ruv reported the lawsuit is targeting Samherji and its management over claims made by a Namibian-owned company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The publication says the lawsuit is being brought against Samherji by Restitution Litigation Limited, which was formed for the purpose of filing the lawsuit against the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align:...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512270210.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Kingdom-based debt collection company has reportedly sued Icelandic fishing company Samherji for US$1.11 billion (about N$18.5 billion) over claims tied to the &#8220;Fishrot&#8221; scandal. Icelandic publication Ruv reported the lawsuit is targeting Samherji and its management over claims made by a Namibian-owned company. The publication says the lawsuit is being brought against Samherji [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6495,7559,31744,15512,4706,724,257,32794,7454,254,11600],"class_list":["post-218274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-firm","tag-fishrot","tag-n18","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-samherji","tag-scandal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sues"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}