Namibia: PDM Loses Case About Russian Billionaire's 99-Year Lease of Namibian Farms

Namibia: PDM Loses Case About Russian Billionaire's 99-Year Lease of Namibian Farms

The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) has lost a High Court case in which it attempted to have the lease of four farms to a Russian billionaire for 99 years set aside.

PDM loses case about Russian billionaire’s 99-year lease of Namibian farms

The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) has lost a High Court case in which it attempted to have the lease of four farms to a Russian billionaire for 99 years set aside. The PDM’s application against respondents including the minister of land reform, the president, the government and Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov’s company Comsar Properties SA was dismissed by judge Orben Sibeya in the Windhoek High Court on Friday. The PDM tried to have a f…