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Undaunted by death threats, a former municipal worker uncovered a pattern of corruption. Her revelations helped bring down the government of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, forced out by a no-confidence vote in Parliament on 1 June, 2018. Ana Garrido,...
Luxembourg’s Court of Appeal has ruled that former PwC employee Antoine Deltour, convicted of a breach of law for leaking documents about the country’s notorious tax avoidance schemes that benefitted big companies won’t be sentenced and ordered him to...
Even as the CEO of Barclay’s Bank has managed to keep his job after trying to root out the source of a disclosure , the European Commission has proposed stronger laws to provide protection for whistleblowers reporting wrongdoing. People who...
Barclay’s Chief Executive Jes Staley will be fined by regulators who also reprimanded him for using the bank’s security apparatus to try to find a whistleblower who raised concerns about the recruitment of one of his friends, Tim Main,...
He spent two years in jail not for committing a crime, but reporting one – that of torture – and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou’s story of how it happened, turned into a book also launched in Greece, had an...
Blueprint has launched it's Working with Whistleblowers Initiative. We are developing the first international guidelines for journalists working with whistleblowers in the digital age.
Public Statement by Blueprint for Free Speech In a historic step toward effective to protect whistleblowers around the globe, the European Commission published its proposed new European Directive on Whistleblowing this week. The initiative comes after two years of intense...
After months of disagreement and debate that resembled a political soap opera, French lawmakers finally granted expanded rights to employees who report threats to the public interest. However, it remains to be determined how well the French law will...
A former anti-money laundering investigator on Malta, Jonathan Ferris, who says he has knowledge of massive wrongdoing, will sue to get whistleblower protection he said was deliberately blocked by the government with a scandal reaching Prime Minister's Joseph Muscat's...
The murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak, who was looking into fraud tied to the government and organized crime led Prime Minister Robert Fico to step down but tens of thousands protesters in the streets of the capital Bratislava...
Greece’s anti-money laundering authority has reportedly recommended that the former Chairman of Piraeus Bank, one of the country’s big four, face charges over the sale of five properties it said could be tied to his family. The agency said Michalis Sallas is culpable for the 2016 sale of the properties to a Cypriot firm even though he wasn’t at the bank at the time, which he noted in denying any wrongdoing. “There are strong indications that Mr. Sallas and other members of Piraeus management who participated in the deals are guilty of malfeasance,” the agency said, adding that the deals cost the bank, already awash in bad loans, some 6.4 million euros ($7.91 million), according to a report by financial news agency Bloomberg.
Blueprint's new report series on whistleblower protection in Europe shows that protections are still low across EU countries. Whistleblowers need stronger, more comprehensive laws - and those laws need to work in practice. 'Gaps in the System' evaluates specific whistleblower...