The whistleblowers in Macedonia have been turned into victims instead of heroes
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Edward Snowden – the most famous whistleblower in the 21st century
Goran Lefkov Edward Joseph Snowden was born on June 21, 1983 and is a former American computer intelligence consultant. He disclosed highly classified information from the US National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013. He was employed by a subcontractor company. The materials revealed by Snowden exposed global surveillance programs, many of them run by the NSA, with the help of telecommunications companies and European governments as partners. In 2013,... Aleksandar Obradovikj revealed Serbian weapons for ISIS
Goran Lefkov The story of Aleksandar Obradovikj began in 2014. As a member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, he was appointed general manager of the factory in Krushik, near Valjevo, Serbia. The new director soon clashed with the staff when he saw what was going on inside. He began to collect examples of bad management. A year later, in an investigation, colleagues from the Balkan Investigative Reporters Network... A person with the pseudonym John Doe revealed 11 million documents from Mossack Fonseca where money was laundered
Goran Lefkov Mossack Fonseca is one of the most famous cases ever reported in the world of investigative journalism. The reason for this is over 11 million documents that emerged from the company Mossack Fonseca, which was used by many billionaires for money laundering. They used tax havens, where the trail of criminally acquired wealth was concealed. The history of this story began in 2015. Mossack Fonseca was a... Silver Meikar – investigative journalist, politician and whistleblower from Estonia
Goran Lefkov Silver Meikar is a striking figure in investigative journalism who remained faithful to the principles in all the positions he held in Estonian society and in the European Parliament. Born in 1978 in Tartu, he started his political activities in his student days, when he was elected a member of the Tartu city council. He finished his education in his hometown, where he started his career. In... Three whistleblowers of the General Electric nuclear power plant
Goran Lefkov Gregory Minor, Richard Hubbard and Dale Bridenbaugh are the three whistleblowers who first went public on February 2, 1976 and said that the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama was unsafe. They were known to the public as the General Electric Three. They alerted the public that the new way of installing the installation in the first-generation nuclear power plants was not safe. Their action was called... David Franklin of Pfizer received a whopping $24 million for disclosing manipulations with the medicine Neurontin
Goran Lefkov David Franklin is an American microbiologist and former Harvard Medical School associate who, while employed by Parke-Davis, filed a whistleblower lawsuit in 1996 exposing their illegal promotion of Neurontin (gabapentin) for unethical use. Franklin’s lawsuit, filed on behalf of the citizens of the United States under the qui tam provisions of the US federal and state law, exposed illegal practices by the pharmaceutical industry and set a... Jeffrey Wigand, the man who disclosed the manipulation of ammonia to enhance the effect of nicotine in cigarettes
Jeffrey Wigand, the man who disclosed the manipulation of ammonia to enhance the effect of nicotine in cigarettes Goran Lefkov Tobacco industry has been known to manipulate science since the 1950s and 1960s when it poured money into “scientists” to dispute the findings of real scientists who came out with claims about the harmfulness of nicotine to human health. Jeffrey Wigand appeared a little later, in the mid-90s, on... 