When Wikileaks first published the documents that would later become known as the 'Fishrot' files on Nov. 13, heads were turned from around the world. The initial release had a staggering fallout across the tail end of 2019, with ramifications at the very top of some of Europe's leading fishing companies, as well as the Namibian government itself.

The allegations made in the 30,000 or so e-mails, internal reports, spreadsheets, presentations and photos are now well-known: Samherji, one of Iceland's largest international fishing companies, is accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes to certain Namibian cabinet ministers and businessmen in return for fishing access. 

The whistleblower, Johannes Stefansson, was himself allegedly part of these deals, having served as Samherji's project manager in Namibia until leaving the role in 2016; his reliability has been repeatedly called into question by the Icelandic fishing firm [...]