Samherja’s permit to operate a fish-drying facility at Laugum in Reykjadalur has been revoked, creating uncertainty for a business employing about 20 people, mbl.is reports. The facility has long been the subject of complaints from nearby residents about odours and noise. Samherji has responded b…

Staff Reporter BUSINESSMAN James Hatuikulipi has brought forth an urgent application to overturn a judgment which led to the auctioning of his Finkenstein property. Hatuikulipi and several others were arrested in 2019 in relation to the “Fishrot” scandal, standing trial in connection with an alleged racketeering, corruption and money-laundering scheme involving at least N$300 million. They are accused of accepting bribes from the Icelandic fishing company Samherji in exchange for lucrative horse mackerel quotas. In the current application lodged in August 2026, Hatuikulipi claims that he has stumbled upon new facts detailing documents that showed that invoices were paid to settle levies on his Finkenstein property, and that despite this, his property was auctioned. Hatuikulipi, in his application, referenced several payments from June to September 2026 made on his behalf to clear the account by a business partner. “Yet what exacerbates the entire situation is that even when arrangements were presented to settle the account, the legal representatives of Finkenstein Homeowners Association chose, whether intentionally or through some inadvertence, to not honour the commitment they made and take my business partner up on the commitment he made. Instead, they went on to take steps to make the dispossession of property more likely than. To me, this is simply reprehensible,” Hatuikulipi claimed. In response, Hellmut Gottlob von Ludwiger, the Chairperson of the Finkenstein Homeowners Association, said that it is too late as the property has already been auctioned off. “In the main case…the Finkenstein Homeowners Association issued summons against the defendant Hatuikulpi and/or ‘Sinco Investments 15 (Pty) Ltd’ for payment of arrears monthly levies, power and water consumption, interest and penalty charges and costs on the attorney and client scale. Summons was served on the person in charge at the company’s registered address and at its physical address. No appearance to defend was entered and default judgment was granted on 31 October 2023,” Ludwiger said. He added that a writ of execution for movables was issued and that a Rule 108 application was brought in respect of the company’s vacant 12-erf property and, on 12 April 2024, the property was declared to be specially executable. A writ of execution against immovable property was issued and the immovable property was sold at auction on 22 July 2024. Ludwiger further stated that on 12 March 2026, the Court found that the sale in execution was not affected by the POCA proceedings and remained valid and binding, and that it could not be said to have been erroneously sought or granted, as envisaged in Rule 103(1)(a). “The default judgment can also not be rescinded under Rule 16 simply because the company in fact owes and does not dispute that it owes the debt in respect of which the default judgment was granted. The company can therefore not satisfy the requirement to show that it has a bona fide defence to the claim in respect of which default judgment was granted,” Ludwiger said. He added that Hatuikulipi’s business partner, a certain Izak Moller, did liaise with the Finkenstein Homeowners Association’s legal practitioner, Mr Marais, by email and loosely intimated that he would make periodic or monthly payments towards the outstanding levy account of the company, Sinco Investments 115 (Pty) Ltd. He, however, said that payments were not made and that it was the only [payment], and so the sale in execution proceeded. “There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. In other words, Mr Moller did not make any of the payments he undertook to make and so the sale in execution proceeded. At the date of the sale in execution, the amount outstanding was N$183,718.89,” Ludwiger said. Photo: File The post Hatuikulipi seeks to regain auctioned Finkenstein Estate property appeared first on Informanté.

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Iceland’s Court of Appeal has confirmed that District Prosecutor Ólafur Þór Hauksson is not disqualified from investigating alleged bribery and money laundering by former police officer Jón Óttar Ólafsson while he worked for Samherji, mbl.is reports. On July 31, the court upheld a July 3 ruling b…

Samherji, Iceland’s largest aquaculture and sea fishing company has announced it is taking a major step to help people with addiction issues.

Samherji hefur stofnað átakssjóð sem fengið hefur nafnið Samheldni. Sjóðnum er ætlað að standa fyrir stórfelldu átaki í fjárfestingum hjá þeim sem sinna meðferðarúrræðum fyrir fólk með fíknisjúkdóma á Íslandi. Samherji ætlar að leggja fram 20 milljónir á ári á næstu fimm árum. Stefnt er að því að fá atvinnulífið allt til liðs við verkefnið svo sjóðurinn geti úthlutað yfir 300 milljónum króna til þriggja bráðnauðsynlegra átaksverkefna.

Samherji hefur stofnað átakssjóð sem fengið hefur nafnið Samheldni. Sjóðnum er ætlað að standa fyrir stórfelldu átaki í fjárfestingum hjá þeim sem sinna meðferðarúrræðum fyrir fólk með fíknisjúkdóma á Íslandi. Samherji ætlar að leggja fram 20 milljónir á ári á næstu fimm árum. Stefnt er að því að fá atvinnulífið allt til liðs við verkefnið svo sjóðurinn geti úthlutað yfir 300 milljónum króna til þriggja bráðnauðsynlegra átaksverkefna.

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Samherji hefur stofnað átakssjóð sem fengið hefur nafnið Samheldni.

Samherji hefur stofnað átakssjóðinn Samheldni, sem er ætlað að standa fyrir stórfelldu átaki í innviðafjárfestingum hjá þeim sem sinna meðferðarúrræðum fyrir fíknisjúka á Íslandi.

More than 1,000 people who say they suffered losses through unemployment and loss of income in connection with alleged bribe payments by Samherji in Namibia want to take part in any court proceedings ...

More than 1,000 people who say they suffered losses through unemployment and loss of income in connection with alleged bribe payments by Samherji in Namibia want to take part in any court proceedings ...

Staff Reporter THE Namibian government has sought a postponement of a civil case involving the MFV Heinaste fishing vessel involved in the Fishrot scandal, stating that the main witness in the matter should first testify in the criminal matter before the civil case involving the fishing vessel, due to safety concerns. ESJA Investments, a subsidiary company of the Samherji group of companies, an international group engaged in fishing worldwide, is seeking a court order for funds of up to N$162.6 million (USD 8,804,431.67) to be released by the Namibian government and its sister company, Heinaste Investments Pty Ltd. ESJA Investments (the plaintiff) claims that the outstanding balance of its loan claim against Heinaste Namibia amounts to USD 8.8 million plus interest after it helped Heinaste Namibia purchase the MFV Heinaste fishing vessel, which is reported to have been used in the Fishrot scandal. The State, however, opposed the release of the said funds, arguing that they formed part of the proceeds of crime. Now, the Government, Attorney General and the Prosecutor General are seeking to temporarily stay the civil action instituted by ESJA Investments until February 2027, which coincides with the commencement of the Fishrot criminal trial. Advocate Dennis Khama, representing the State, said that the application is not an application to permanently stay the main action; instead, it is an application to temporarily stay the main action until February 2027. “In the criminal proceedings, the State relies on the testimony of the primary witness to prove its case against the accused persons and to further prove that the MV Heinaste was used in the Fishrot scheme,” Khama said. He added that in the civil matter, ESJA needs the primary witness to testify in both the main action and in the criminal case, and given the prevailing security concerns that the primary witness has and the continuous delays experienced in the criminal case, there is a lot at stake in the criminal case. It is for this reason that the State requires the primary witness to first testify in the criminal case before he testifies in the main action. Khama said that the primary witness is currently under a witness protection programme in a foreign country at an undisclosed location due to the fact that there is an imminent danger to his life that arose when he disclosed his knowledge of the involvement of Samherji foreign directors in the aforesaid criminal matter. The advocate further claimed that, given the fact that the life of ESJA’s primary witness is at stake, it is in the interests of the State to first lead his evidence in the criminal trial before he testifies in the main action, as doing so mitigates the risk to which the primary witness is exposed. He added that the prejudice the State may suffer in the criminal trial if the primary witness first testifies in the civil action is serious, irreparable and distinguishable when compared to the prejudice (if any) that any of the parties in the main action may suffer if the main action is temporarily stayed until the primary witness has testified in the criminal matter. FISHROT: The State has sought an application to stay a civil lawsuit involving a vessel used in the Fishrot case to ensure that the main witness in the matter is not exposed to any security concerns pending his testimony. Photo: File The post Government seeks postponement of Fishrot ESJA civil case due to witness safety concerns appeared first on Informanté.