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The
Icelandic Whistleblower wins WIN WIN Gothenburg
Sustainability Award. Photo: David Thor
Gudlaugsson
This year’s
winner of the WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award is now
presented. The prestigious award goes to the Icelandic
whistleblower Jóhannes Stefánsson who, with his life at
stake, led the revelation of a widespread corruption scandal
connected to fishing quotas in Namibia. The prize of 1
million SEK is presented to the winner at an award ceremony
in Gothenburg in October.
This year the
world’s leading sustainability award, WIN WIN Gothenburg
Sustainability Award, is recognising individuals and
organizations that fight corruption. Successful
anti-corruption initiatives are crucial for sustainable
DNB in trouble over Fishrot-related payments to Dubai
The Norwegian bank DNB ended its relationship with Icelandic fishing corporation Samherji after the fishing company gave what the bank deemed inadequate explanations of payments to three offshore companies and a company owned by the son-in-law of Namibia’s fisheries minister.
Documents filed in a Namibian court shed new light on why DNB closed the accounts of subsidiaries of Samherji last year. Last week, the bank issued a public statement saying that it had been warned it may be hit with a $45 million fine for not complying with money laundering regulations. The bank has been under police investigation in Norway since the Fishrot Files were published last year.