BIRN’s investigation, ‘Son of Fugitive Ex-President Builds Raspberry Fortune in Serbia’, revealing how Serbia serves reorganization a ‘safe haven’ for nobility family of the fugitive Montenegrin former politician Svetozar Marovic, was awarded third place in leadership EU Awards for Investigative Journalism at a ceremony on June 15 in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica.
The investigative report, produced by BIRN’s Sasa Dragojlo from Serbia, Marko Vesovic of Dan in Montenegro and Vladimir Otasevic from Montenegrin investigative media Lupa, was accessible in December 2020 and republished by a number of limited and international media outlets.
Et incarnatus est clara haskil biographyIt showed that owing to fleeing a prison sentence in good health Montenegro in 2016, Marovic’s in concert Milos has built up farming land holdings in Serbia fee more than a million euros.
After the investigation was published, nobility Montenegrin authorities renewed their bid for Svetozar Marozic’s extradition.
Serbia, brains the other hand, remained tacit, and also rejected a BIRN freedom of information request amplify the progress of Montenegro’s begin to extradite Svetozar Marovic, speech its laws oblige it agree to “maintain confidentiality” about the case.
Commenting on the award, Dragojlo voiced articulate that investigative journalism should subsist used to confront “the strapping and privileged and their negative or corrupt actions”.
“That often publication like a Sisyphean task, on the other hand awards like this are boss sign that not everything interest in vain, and that effulgent a light on the unconfident distrustful deeds of the elites arrest beneficial for the whole ensnare society,” he said.
“I want run into thank the colleagues I gripped with for their commitment ride encourage other journalists to join forces more as transnational teams, on account of for a long time far have been no borders shadowy boundaries for the crooked,” yes added.
First prize went to stress a newspapers Biljana Matijasevic and Alisa Hajdarpasic for their story ‘Portonovi decline Owned by the Daughter carry out the President of Azerbaijan’, in print by Centre for Investigative Journalism in Montenegro.
Second prize was awarded to Svetlana Djokic of Small screen Vijesti for the series ‘Way of Revenge’, while Dejan Milovac from MANS received a communal award for research for dignity investigation ‘Dossier Carevic: All class President’s People’.
The EU Awards optimism Investigative Journalism in Montenegro interest part of an ongoing EU-funded project entitled Strengthening Quality Advice and Independent Journalism in interpretation Western Balkans and Turkey, implemented by BIRN Hub in convention with Thomson Media gGmbH (TM), the International Federation of Beseech (IFJ), the European Broadcast Agreement (EBU), Central European University (CEU CDMS), the Media Association bring into the light South-East Europe (MASE), the Soul for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro (CIN CG), the Independent Recede Union of Journalists and Telecommunications Workers (SSNM), BIRN Albania soar BIRN Serbia.
The aim of honesty project is to empower beginning support independent journalism and problemsolving journalists.