Whistleblowing – a new step in the Macedonian struggle for a better future

Goran Lefkov Whistleblowing as a phenomenon gives a strong impetus to the fight against corruption and contributes to better democratic governance. There were forms of whistleblowing in our country in the past as well. The difference between then and now is that today whistleblowing is regulated by law. The most famous case of whistleblowing is the case of Gjorgji Lazarevski and Zvonko Kostovski. They are the people who had...

Albania hasn’t had a significant case received from a whistleblower yet

Author: Goran Lefkov Whistleblowing in Albania as a powerful tool in the fight against corruption has not borne fruit yet. The state adopted a Law on Protection of Whistleblowers relatively early in 2016, but for 6 years now there has been no significant case from which other countries in the region can learn, such as the case of Murat Mehmeti in Kosovo and the Lazarevski-Kostovski case in North Macedonia....

Gjorgji Lazarevski and Zvonko Kostovski’s heroic deed

Today Gjorgji Lazarevski and Zvonko Kostovski are safe and can sleep peacefully with the thought that the public is familiar with the weight of what they have heard and what they have known another very important thing is that thousands of employed citizens have legal protection if they decide to share the injustices they see and witness. Author: Goran Lefkov Center for Investigative Journalism SCOOP Macedonia is going to...

The feat of Murat Mehmeti, the most famous whistleblower from Kosovo

Author: Goran Lefkov The disappearance of 25 million euros from the scope of the Kosovo Tax Administration in 2012 was a nightmare for the middle-aged Murat Mehmeti from Mitrovica. Responsible for investigating tax fraud in the Kosovo Tax Administration, he was constantly haunted by the thought that the future of his country, the future of his children and grandchildren, had been robbed by an organized crime group for financial...

Whistleblowers unprotected in practice

There is no financial support for whistleblowers when they have no income or get fired. Condemned by the institutions and without legal aid, they fight the system as fighting a bear Author: Goran Lefkov Whistleblowers are the enemy of the state. This is the impression of the people who, for the sake of the state and the citizens, have become whistleblowers, just because they cannot stand the injustices and...

A $ 200 million reward to a whistleblower from Deutsche Bank

Author: Goran Lefkov October 2021 is written as the month in which a whistleblower was paid the biggest reward in the history of whistleblowing. He is an anonymous director of Deutsche Bank, who provided information to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), or Commodity Exchanges Commission, about embezzling billions of dollars. The CFTC is a government agency responsible for protecting commodity markets and enforcing the Commodity Exchange Act...