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ALJAZ Anatomy Of A Bribe July 13, 2024

Parliament is accepted prime is the idol of resignation after he submitted it on that saturday he will continue to lead a caretaker ministration before the countrys president elect severed placement hes standing down after weeks of increasingly violent antigovernment protests which of left more than 400. 00 people dead but his resignation is not expected to any on rest as protesters demanding a complete overhaul of the political system. Amount of old pain has more from baghdad. That we dont really see in abating in the demonstrations on the street whether its in baghdad or in some of the other southern cities or what people want they Want Parliament to be dissolved they want the Political Parties who put other of the the in place to leave and they want fresh elections to be held under a new election on now there is a new like election law that has been tabled in parliament but it only really includes nominal changes it increases the number of independent candidates in parliament but it still retains a lot of power in the hands of the Political Parties and thats not what protesters want they were actually want a president ial system whereby the head of state is elected through a popular vote and that demand has been ignored by the political establishment thus far there is no mention of such a change in the electoral law that has been people so it doesnt really look that we will see the complete overhaul of the political system the demonstrators have been asking for 2 people who were lynched by a crowd in the democratic republic of congo were victims of mistaken identity couple were attacked in the eastern town of benny by a crowd who thought that they were from the a. D. F. Militia the countrys army says that they were actually a sergeant and his wife the attack follows protests against un peacekeepers who locals say have not done enough to protect them from months of rebel attacks. Peacekeeping chief has been in beni where they have been protests against un troops and he admitted that there was room for improvement. But here. We are on the side of the people of this region the congolese people are there any things we can do better of course they are and we will work on it are our partners with who we work with every day also thinking about how to work even more closely with us. Our d. C. Armed forces the National Police the authorities mexicos president has admitted the Economic Growth in his 1st year in office has fallen short of expectations under money Lopez Obrador has spoken at a rally in the capital mexico city to mark the anniversary despite problems with the economy and continued violence and murder rates he has maintained his popularity. The 2 People Killed in fridays attack near London Bridge have been formally identified by the police 23 year old saskia jones was a graduate of Cambridge University she was attending a prisoner rehabilitation event along with another graduate 25 year old jack merritt they and 3 others were stabbed by us monk on merit in jos were involved in the learning together program which connects graduate students with prisoners to study criminology and organizers say nearly 400000 people have marched in hong kong a week after the china group swept the territories district elections tear gas and pepper spray were used on protesters but it did remain largely peaceful as this march march was sanctioned by the police territory has seen antigovernment demonstrations for almost 6 months in another of the 3 marches on sunday a group went to the u. S. Embassy passing on their thanks after the country adopted a law backing the protests. Up next Al Jazeera Investigations with in that to me of a bribe a story that looks at cash for political favors in namibia to stay with us for that. Oh all. I. Film takes you inside a multimillion dollar corruption scandal. If the minister wants to get paid im sure you pay him. Much and we believe he can understand why this issue certain people should. Be ministered to but whatever until we see. How. We reveal how an Icelandic Company is plundering africas resources going to get us to some of the flow that are going to help to. Fibroid ing its politicians if that if you said look you seem to be on the side of the average. People who are angry. How do serious Investigative Unit obtains a cache of confidential documents from wiki leaks. To the highest level im not going to be. Buying political intrigues that would be. The files reveal that to me being cabinet members the minister of fisheries and the minister of justice are accused of accepting bribes you didnt know that your company was receiving money well i challenge you that would be perceived to many to show you the Bank Statements. And the man who paid the bribes tells his story. Like a much for that form of costs the minister was right to have been patient and. If you speak to enough. The woman does think about people she is the movement because she was gracious in all weeks. For 5 years you have a staff and soon worked the biggest Fishing Company sam harry. His main row he says was to obtain lucrative fishing rights in africa by any means necessary. From 2012 the 2 images of 2016 i was paying but im. Paying any kind of payments on behalf of somebody. They have probably made 12150000000 your star out of it. But in 2016 amas decided to blow the whistle. He resigned and left sam harry but not before seizing over 40 gigabytes of emails spread sheet photographs and other company data. To the documents form a blueprint of how far one Company Still resources from african nations. Theyre just dropping the resource of African Companies for their own benefits and they leave nothing left in the company. Knew i had to conform to. Your highness past the documents to wiki leaks who gave them to our to 0 as Investigative Unit and by sloans national broadcaster. To get their way. Sam harry is a household name in iceland. The son haiti has developed into a fully integrated seafood complete with operations and fishing. Processing and sales. The Company Presents itself as a Family Business and celebrates its produce at an annual gathering for the local community. Its been run for the last 40 years by thorston and. Hes proud of sam harris relationship with quality retailers it was one minute earlier one of his q. Has launched a 1st rate of him tanaka. Global brands such as test goes and car for also sell sam harris fish generating hundreds of millions of dollars each year. How do you think they view africa in their business structure. They view africa just a 2nd to give them cash thats it. Namibia on the southwest coast of africa is a country with a small population and abundant natural resources. But a 5th of its citizens still live in poverty. Yanis deficit says thats because of Companies Like the one he used to work for. I would say is a very classic story at the best and company of commerce phenomena. Get access by any means to the source. And take all the profits out. Of the documents obtained by out zira include a Company Presentation which describes considerable corruption in namibia. And sam harrys boss thorston was told that the company needed a Political Support to succeed. Particularly from a man whose name repeatedly crops up in the files bernard the south the fisheries minister. Armed with the leaked documents we began our own investigation. Into how corruption in namibia works. We sent johny an undercover journalist into the capital windhoek. Jony posed as a representative of wealthy chinese investors. His mission to gain access to lucrative fishing rights which are allocated by the government. He sets up a meeting with a lawyer who we knew had political connections. Cease in the manties name. Appears in the leaks documents. They reveal his Company Received over a 1000000. 00 of unexplained payments from the state owned fisheries company. Hes also the president of namibias personal lawyer. Interested. Like resource for sure is true and the fusion tubes. Johnny asks casar to become his local consultant. Guy you really. Do want to go but look at this list if. I could also get you people because. Thats like the united way here and they do it very. The right to catch fish in the maybe it is heavily regulated. The government is supposed to allocate fishing quotas based on merit. And Foreign Investors need to operate alongside and the may be in company. The ultimate aim is that the profits that remain in the country i mean sure that as much as benefits. The movie ans as possible. The lawyer ceased in a mangi has set up a meeting for johnny with a prominent businessman. For drug coverage to more coffee would be another victim. Sakhi could bella runs a large no maybe in Fishing Company called on wallowed. He listens to johnnys proposal. We could argue 1st and then you can use you want each special. To keep running the business. For this entire expanded quote. They are given mr some food for thought. Sakhi invites johnny to visit his companys facilities. And what. Do over here that. He suggests they go into business together. The plan is to set up a joint venture with his Fishing Company. To try to prove that. Exactly soon reveals why the proposed joint venture is a guaranteed money maker he claims he can use Public Officials in the maybe to bypass the fishing laws we could try and so many human limitations and then he could also believe it may come. Sakhi can then ensure that the joint venture will always catch enough fish. But persons only for the influence pretty sure that the model always gets a court that. If and now he doesnt say who this public official would be. In 2012 you have us was looking to break into the namibian fishing industry. He was introduced to a local deal maker times and you could be. Thompson as the fixer. He finds right Foreign Companies he talks to his people and they connected together. Times and connected your hannahs to his cousin james how to kill e. P. A local entrepreneur. James is the mastermind of the set of a car. How payments out of the. Ethos of the business part of the 1st question. James and tamzin have to kill e. P. Would become central enablers in sam harris bribery scheme through their close relations to towns and father in law and maybe as minister of fisheries learned to sour. If the power brokers were doing the deals directly themselves. Theyd probably be too exposed. But when the lid is lifted you often see that the people behind that company a middleman notorious for corrupt deals good. Times and 1st job to sam harry was to connect your hand s. And his boss the austin with their high level political contact. This was the big moment for them on. Their bit to make it with meeting. The Decision Maker dos im going to toss that. Decision maker and not be the minister of fishing as so. This meeting was about is the toughest because the trust is so important in a big question. Once youre in youre in a you dont get so easy out. For delivering this meeting the leaked documents reveal that tamzin was paid 38000. 00 u. S. Dollars. 3 weeks after the 1st meeting with our enablers sakhi he tells johnny he has the political connection we need. Undercover reporter was led to the same man that you hannahs met at the party. The minister of fisheries. Group on the on who spews. Contribution you go fishing industry its all just all over the profession should you go there you have the cookie that it will be really because it comes to many people. Looking to cook opportunities to be both. Going to miss out presides over an Industry Worth 3 quarters of a 1000000000. 00 a year. The minister tells our reporter he should use a private number to contact him what you know thank you thanks very much if it also asks about a phone that would make his life easier. Its only. Way you could i assure you that publicity. Could be this way because of. The 2 for the cult of misfire the comic. Book. Was great the man think. The meeting with the minister is a success and sackey will soon suggest our 1st deal to get him finished the disappointing show. Psyche has invited johnny to a trade fair organized by the National Fishing corporation of namibia known as fish call its a government run company i have my us using here right. So we have my guest today. Mike new companion hes a fish course c. E. O. Thank you very much you give him a good looks. Each year the fisheries minister assigns fish call thousands of tons of fishing quotas which they then sell to private companies that the government runs but. They can do with what they like to sit in the back of the backs of. The coaches the fish course sells can generate millions of dollars in fish sales bidding for them is meant to be highly competitive. But the cursed johnny is backed by sacchi mike says he can help. Them bypass any competition. This one is a facebook makes this a bit. More softly you helped sucky before reporters. A few days later sakhi arranges another meeting with mike how hes never heard anything is. A deal is struck to guarantee fish called quotas for johnny and sac each joint venture. Johnny will hand over 20 percent of the company to mike as well as hoffa 1000000 us dollars. Mike will then ensure the quote is a given to johnnys joint venture with sacchi. He will make sure that you get the quote there and its in nice interest because by the way to hell you could say its interesting about the issues. My kids came to use sakhi to hide his involvement with you threaten to release the next letter. To the prince in the senate theyve become stupid then im just stuck to that they could get was there a point to all the police. To hide mikes 20 percent share in our company and the heart of a 1000000. 00 payment sakhi office to launder the function through one of his companies s p k consulting. Business my company of the time the only settled and im the only American Ship was ok then that is the only reason why are we using this to put it because we dont want anybody else. Asking questions that nobody will find. That you have heard of to see it was a good distance if you were on the. Pier and. We showed a no maybe im professor of law at the evidence that up on the cover reports i had gathered about face cool c. E. O. To see he would be checking into capacities as a private citizen and as an official and in both cases the beneficiary of that thats just. Lent him in. In 2013 you have a says he was offered to provide a payment for fisheries minister bernard is south in return for securing fishing quotas. The request was made by thames and had to could be. Called to. Give the minister 60000 you was thrown off so. I called one of the team on the show somehow they. Told me. If mr fish city wants to get paid. Like him most bought back. Their conscience the minister was right it had been presented. A year after the payment was made minister a south appointed a new chairman of fish. While Mike Newcombe is the c. E. O. The man appointed to head the company with thames and cousin james had to be. Generous as i had the fish course he made sure of that much or the fishing for to squash the summit even though some of the other companies were willing to pay a higher price. For the documents reveal that some harry made payments of over 4 and a oh off 1000000 us dollars into companies owned by thames and how to kill e. P. James becomes the chap off fishbowl the companies that are getting the money are linked to thomson. This looks very much like bribery. Saberi plus a very difficult explaining to. The minister of fisheries bernard a sour has flown to tokyo on official business our undercover reporter johnny a range is to meet him for dinner. Many times this summer earning from the trust fund. And the election is soon to take place in namibia and the minister asks johnny to help the ruling party oh you know yes they think its harmless you know. The secret students. Feel. Like you need it but seriously fast johnny says he knows a factory that can do the job. Should give him the lady was a. Small gift. It gives the minister the phone he wanted. Or is there that will. Improve the truth of. The truth. Your son. Johnny then explains that he needs the ministers support to secure fishing quotas. Boards. A lot of the members to use the relationship you know and im sure. Yes thats really what. The minister suggests that we donate to his reelection campaign. Believes he really felt he was not and he lists some. Event asks for a 2nd donation to the ruling party known as swap i. Can sneak back in if i missed the fact that youre not here for the initial. Standard there so you have stuff in it yes yes thats the. The easy truth for google will go fish next if that is said look for me on the side to the other tribes who tell me yes ok im going to see something. Mr south and those implicated in the leaked documents are members of namibias ruling party a South West Africa Peoples Organization or swamp. Swamp i was born out of namibias independence struggle the party has won every election since independence in 1990. 1 controls the public institutions. Corruption become the want of. The woman to speak about it is the moment you close your grave yet in all weeks ringback ringback ringback ringback. You have a says the corruption he experienced went right to the top of the party. In 2014 he was asked for a political donation by james had achilles on behalf of the incoming president again job. James called me and asked us to pay him 140000 you were still there because the president needed to pay his fellow trouble members this was a lection coming in the party 2 months left there. Leaked emails appeared to confirm that a payment equivalent to 140000. 00 us dollars was made it was said to be for the party. We have no evidence of president game go bad post no knowledge of this. I called tossed an issue up somebody and asked if we should do it then we meet in favor of green light. So we had jammers which

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