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Hunting Down Off-Shores

20/04/2007

Cyprus and several other states allow companies' founders to do their business through representatives without too many questions asked, and thus hide their identity from the public and investigative reporters. How can we overcome this hurdle in the quest for the origin of dirty money?

B-H Is Not Combating Illegal Art Trade

Dževad Ćesko

16/03/2007

Bosnia-Herzegovina doesn’t have a specialized institution at any level of government which would even register, let alone fight illegal trade in art, antiquities or archeological finds, as if this type of crime didn’t exist. These are upsetting facts uncovered by ONASA journalist Dževad Ćesko while working on a recently published story.

Magazine „Status“, Serbia: „Printing as necessary“

MCOnline Redakcija

28/02/2007

Read about the ways in which counterfeit money arrives in Serbia and the complete “mechanisms” of this exclusive, lucrative “cross-border” crime, investigated by a participant in the “Investigative Reporting and Organized Crime” training program, implemented by NetNovinar – Center for Investigative Reporting and Media Education.

Avarian Belt Remains in Serbia by Chance

MCOnline Redakcija

27/02/2007

An investigative team of the Investigative Reporting and Organized Crime program implemented by Media Centar Sarajevo Training Center questioned the results of court proceedings for attempted sale of a valuable, illegally uncovered archeological find, as well as facts based on which the court verdicts were reached, proving beyond any doubt the existence of a ring involved in illegal archeology, smuggling and trafficking in Serbia’s cultural and historic wealth. Written by: Belgrade weekly NIN journalists Dragana Perić and Nebojša Janković

A News Story that Changed the Law

MCOnline Redakcija

23/02/2007

The story “Money Laundering to be Penalized Again” by Andreja Kasanić, created in the first generation of the “Investigative Reporting Program: Stories on the Theme of Organized Crime,” resulted in a provision penalizing “money laundering” being reinserted in the Penal Code of the Republic of Croatia.

Croatian Forests – Victim and Accomplice in Illegal Exploitation

MCOnline Redakcija

16/11/2006

As a result of illegal exploitation of quarries, logging and artificially turning woodlands into construction sites, Slavonian forests are being destroyed with impunity. Authorities, including the Croatian Government, instead of putting a stop to this, are allowing and even stimulating it. This is the most thorough story so far on the issue, with documented results of a journalist’s investigation.By Ljiljanka Mitoš-Svoboda, freelance journalist, Osijek

Success achieved by a participant in the NetNovinar Training Center training program

MCOnline Redakcija

13/11/2006

A participant in the “Investigative Reporting and Organized Crime” program implemented by the Media Centar Sarajevo NetNovinar Training Center, after working on her investigation for just two months, deserved an announcement on the front page of the Zagreb Večernji List for uncovering hidden documentation about judges who withdrew their money from a collapsed savings and loan association through real estate when “ordinary” savers couldn’t.

My road to a good story and award for investigative journalism

MCOnline Redakcija

13/11/2006

A participant in the first generation of the program “Investigative Journalism and Organized Crime” implemented by NetNovinar Training Center of Mediacentar Sarajevo and Investigative Journalism Center Zagreb, who won an Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia award for the investigative story “Bird Mafia in SCG,” written during the educational program, writes about the challenges in his research.Written by: Đorđe S. Padejski, journalist from Zrenjanin

Serbia: Open hunt on protected species

MCOnline Redakcija

27/09/2006

A participant in the ‘Investigative reporting and organised crime’ training programme of the Mediacentar Sarajevo and the Centre for investigative journalism from Zagreb has proved that illegal unhindered hunting of protected bird species takes place in Vojvodina in a very organised way. He lined up an illegal hunting trip through an agency offering these on their web site and got a former guide of one such agency to reveal details of their “work”. An ongoing, dreadful, illegal slaughter of wild birds takes place in Serbia, yielding great profits.By: Đorđe Padejski, Zrenjaninske novine

Tuberculosis in Belarus

MCOnline Redakcija

16/06/2006

In Belarus a thousand of people still die from tuberculosis every year. In closed prison clinics Penitentiary Departments does not support keeping extra months to feed by high-calorie diet. And some patients are discharged from prison hospitals before they are cured when their stretch is over. Material is prepared by “Journalistic Investigation Agency” Creative Studio under assistance of Danish Journalists-Investigators Association.

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