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#Somalia’s Finance state minister Mohamud Hayir Ibrahim has accused a #Canadian journalist and a non-governmental organisation of hacking his email and plotting to kill him, amid investigations into illegal fishing in the country’s Indian Ocean coastline. @NationAfrica
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Mr Ibrahim has asked the #Kenyan courts to issue orders barring #Canadian journalist Jay Bahadur and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (Giato) from investigating him over illegal fishing along #Somalia’s coastline.

Through Giato, Mr Bahadur last month published an investigative report on the vice, and it pointed to several government officials, including Mr Ibrahim, in aiding illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Indian Ocean. #Somalia

The report stated that government officials used their positions to get kickbacks in return for issuing fishing licences to companies like Nefco.

#Nefco works with the #China Overseas Fisheries Association to supply fish to the #Asian country, but Mr Bahadur’s probe revealed that most of the catch is obtained illegally and with the aid of government officials. #Somalia