Investigative journalism

Bulgaria's revenue agency has filed a formal request to receive information about Bulgarians whose names are involved in Panama Papers, the leak of some 11.5 million documents revealing their offshore financial dealings.

An international consortium of media outlets has published an extensive investigation into the offshore financial dealings of political leaders, movie celebrities and sports starts based on a huge volume of documents reportedly leaked by an anonymous source.

The Kremlin on April 4 slammed the leak of the "Panama Papers" tax documents as an attack aimed primarily at Russian President Vladimir Putin, claiming that former CIA officials helped analyse the papers.
 

The biggest leak in journalist history, called the Panama Papers, has revealed a global network of corruption and tax avoidance, and includes many rich and famous people.

The editorial staff of the insajder.net website, dedicated to investigative journalism, has received several death treats over the past week.

The death threats have been sent to the website's associates as well as to its editor-in-chief, Brankica Stankovic, and B92 News Editor-in-Chief Veran Matic - both of whom have been under around-the-clock police protection for years.

Based on official documents collected over the past year, several million euros "vanished from official records of two ministries over a 2-year period."

"Spotlight," one of the strongest candidates at this year's Oscars, has already been hailed as one of the best ever movies on journalism. The movie covers the story of the Boston Globe's investigative Spotlight unit, which earned the daily the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its reporting on child sex abuse in the Boston area by Roman Catholic priests.

The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project - a network of investigative centres, media outlets and journalists - has handed Montenegro's leader a far-from-flattering New Year's award.

Its annual poll saw the long-standing Montenegrin strongman narrowly beat the wife and children of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev for the "award" of "Person of the Year in Organized Crime".

The Central European Initiative, CEI, and the South East Europe Media Organisation, SEEMO, on Thursday awarded Aleksandra Bogdani for her professional achievements as an intrepid reporter covering complex stories of human trafficking, organised crime and child abuse, corruption and national security.

She received the CEI/SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits.

Informer announced on Tuesday that it will publish an article next week revealing who is financing three Serbian "anti-government" media organisations.