Dr Nick Martin, is awarded the 2019 Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for his role in exposing grossly inadequate conditions and lack of medical care for refugees incarcerated by the Australian government on the island of Nauru.

Cyber technology spyware that Israel sold to Saudi Arabia was used to help plan the murder of journalist Jamal Kashoggi, the Washington Post, where he was a columnist reported, even as US President Donald Trump refused to sanction what he said was too important an ally.

A combined effort by Eurojust, Europol and the European Banking federation to go after carriers of dirty money meant for laundering – whether unwittingly or not – led to 168 arrests, including so-called “money mules” and organizers during a sweep across 20 countries.

Fleeing the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to avoid a two-year jail sentence for corruption, previous Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski was granted asylum in Hungary, as a close friend of President Viktor Orban, whose office insisted the approval was not political.

The American lawyer for a whistleblower who alleged Denmark's largest financial institution, Danske Bank, was behind a 200-billion euro ($228.29 billion) money-laundering scandal, said the European Union and United States should link laws to protect people who report wrongdoing.

The family of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, killed while probing corruption at the highest level, said they will go to court to force a public inquiry if the government keeps ignoring their request, their British lawyers said.

Presented by the European Commission in April 2018, the proposal for a Directive to protect European whistleblowers is currently working its way through the European institutions. If adopted, the Directive would provide minimum standards for the protection of employees reporting certain breaches and misconduct in the public interest.

The European Parliament's JURI committee has voted on a set of amendments to its draft whistleblower law that go a long way towards providing protections and standards that Blueprint for Free Speech and others have been pressing its members to include.

The head of compliance at Barclays, Daniel Hodge, has been criticized by a judge for forwarding an e-mail to senior staff at the bank from a whistleblowing worker, saying the act was “inappropriate” and “a surprise.”

Seven months after Slovakian investigative reporter Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kushnirova were killed in their home, three people have been charged with the murder.

Already cited for more than 200 billion euros ($235.39 billion) in money laundering scandal through its former Estonian branch called the biggest scandal in Europe, Danske Bank will face a new probe over compliance failures.

Herve Falciani, a computer expert who blew the whistle on the Geneva branch of HSBC hiding massive accounts of foreigners evading taxes in their countries, setting off worldwide probes, will not be extradited to Switzerland, a Spanish court ruled.