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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...

Goran Lefkov In the 1970s and 1980s, there were many disclosures in developed countries related to the misuse of nuclear power plants. The most common reasons were the security of the power plants, and the second reason was the secret programs for developing nuclear weapons. There was a big famous case of whistleblowing in Israel in 1986. Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician in Dimona, Israel, fled to the United...

Last year, Haugen first sounded the alarm on Facebook. Led by a personal emotional story of a person close to her who became radicalized due to Facebook violations Goran Lefkov Francis Haugen is the latest big whistleblower. She “whistled” last year. The hardship and weight she lived with had been unbearable. Her close friend, who took care of her recovery from 2011 to 2014, has radicalized himself, “thanks” to...

Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky, a Ukrainian-born in 1972. He worked as a tax advisor and auditor in Russia. Named for him, the Magnitsky Act was passed in the United States in 2012, by which all corrupt politicians and oligarchs in the world are prosecuted. Goran Lefkov Sergei Magnitsky was one of the biggest whistleblowers in Eastern Europe. He worked as a tax advisor for Hermitage Capital Management, where a large...

Author: Goran Lefkov The case of the US investment bank Merrill Lynch in the 1990s brought new winds to the money industry. One of the 5 largest investment banks in the United States, Merrill Lynch, falsified documents for its managers and several other corrupt practices that go against the code of ethics that the bank itself had adopted. Thus, the bank entered into corruption scandals, which cost investors a...

Author: Goran Lefkov The Watergate scandal is one of the most notorious scandals in the United States in the last century. The event was named after the Democratic Party’s headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 17, 1972. It was an illegal intrusion into the headquarters of the party in which people from the administration of the then US President Richard Nixon were involved. Wiretapped materials were brought before the...

Goran Lefkov Vladimir Bukovsky was one of the most famous whistleblowers in the former Soviet Union. His heroic deed is that in the 1970s he handed over 150-page documents to Bill Cole, a CBS News correspondent in Moscow. The documents he handed over described in detail the psychiatric torture inflicted on dissidents and communist freedom fighters by the then-Soviet KGB. The actions took place in the Psychiatric Hospital in...

Goran Lefkov The last session of the first day of the conference was full of journalists. The session was led by the professor at the Faculty of Law in Skopje, i.e. the studies in journalism, Jasna Bachovska-Nedikj. In her introductory speech she mentioned that Macedonia had several good journalists who could cope with world standards, but that in general journalists were far from the required level. She mentioned that...