The Internal Review of Corporate Deviance

4 Internal Reviews, Scapegoating, and Transnational Criminal Justice

When Iceland’s multinational fishing group Samherji was accused of paying bribes to trawl in Namibia, senior executives within the company keen to preserve their public reputation and social license to operate denied knowledge and attempted to blame the whistleblower (Samherji, 2021a and 2021b). Following negative publicity, the Financial Times newspaper reported in November 2019 that two ministers in Namibia had resigned and that Samherji’s chief executive had temporarily stepped down over allegations that the company paid bribes for fishing quotas in the southern African nation’s maritime waters. The employee whistleblower at Samherji informed WikiLeaks, the Al Jazeera ...