Acting prosecutor general Martha Imalwa has obtained a Prevention of Organised Crime Act property restraint order in respect of assets of fugitive lawyer Marén de Klerk valued at up to N$75.3 million. Imalwa is targeting assets valued at up to…

An accountant convicted of defrauding a company at Swakopmund of N$4.48 million was sent to prison for an effective period of 12 years at the end of her trial in the High Court yesterday. Tulihaleni Nghihalwa (38) broke and abused…

The Fishrot fraud, corruption and racketeering case about the alleged unlawful allocation and use of Namibian fishing quotas has been postponed to 19 October. Acting judge Marilize du Plessis postponed the case at the end of an appearance by the…

A hearing of a lawsuit in which the Municipal Council of Windhoek is suing Namibia Dairies about an oil spill that took place in February 2019 has started in the Windhoek High Court. The municipal council is suing Namibia Dairies…

A married couple who admitted guilt on more than 1 700 charges of fraud and theft involving a total amount of N$9.98 million were sent to prison for effective periods of 14 years and nine years, respectively, in the Windhoek…

The Labour Court has referred a dispute between the state-owned company Namcor Petroleum Trading and Distribution and its former managing director, Imms Mulunga, back to a labour arbitrator after ruling that an arbitrator wrongly found last June that he did…

A Rehoboth resident convicted of murdering his brother by stabbing him in the heart with a knife has been sentenced to life imprisonment at the end of his trial in the High Court. Judge Dinnah Usiku sentenced Riaan van Wyk…

An attempt to have the possession and use of cannabis legalised in Namibia has failed in the Windhoek High Court. With Namibia’s government considering new legislation about the possession and use of cannabis, it is premature for the court to…

The Bank of Namibia has won a Supreme Court appeal about a decision to declare more than N$40 million in a Namibian bank account in the name of a retired general from the Democratic Republic of Congo forfeited to the…

The High Court of Zimbabwe has recognised the liquidation of the Small and Medium Enterprises Bank in Namibia in a step that paves the way for the bank’s liquidators to recover the bank’s assets that may be in Zimbabwe. The…

An elderly woman accused of stealing more than N$4 million from deceased estates of which she had been appointed as an administrator denied guilt on seven charges in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Martha Dobberstein (78) pleaded not guilty on…

Two men accused of murdering a Walvis Bay resident in his home in December 2023 are saying their rights were not explained to them before they made alleged admissions to a police detective. Defence lawyers Albert Titus and Milton Engelbrecht,…