The state has shown it has evidence implicating former minister of fisheries and marine resources Bernhard Esau on what appears to be serious charges in the Fishrot case about the alleged unlawful use of Namibian fishing quotas, a judge said in a bail ruling delivered in the Windhoek High Court yesterday.
Former fisheries and marine resources minister Bernhard Esau and one of his co-accused in the Fishrot fishing quotas fraud, corruption and racketeering case, Nigel van Wyk, are due to hear in two weeks’ time if they have had success with their latest application to be granted bail.
The fatal assault that three Windhoek City Police officers carried out on a teenager in April 2013 was “a plainly brutal and cruel attack”, a Supreme Court judge has commented in a judgement in which the three former officers’ sentences on a charge of murder were increased from 10 years’ imprisonment each to 18 years on Friday.
“What did I get? Until now, I am still a poor Esau. I rely on my pension fund and savings I generated through farming operations."These are the words of former fisheries minister.
Former fisheries and marine resources minister Bernhard Esau says four of his co-accused in the Fishrot fishing quotas fraud and corruption case used his name