First-Ever Whistleblower Reward in Continental Europe Received by Slovakian Doctor
Mihai Cristea 10/05/2021 | 13:02
Dr. Šaling reportedly received a EUR 3,000 reward from Slovakia’s Justice Department for revealing that health records were being falsified. An employee at the Regional Public Health Office in Poprad, the Slovakian Doctor became aware that hygiene inspections of new businesses had been faked. Official documents clearing that businesses to open contained phony signatures and stamps.
Šaling initially reported the issue with his superiors but was utterly ignored he alerted several public authorities including the Health Ministry and Slovakia’s official anti-corruption hotline. The disclosures, which began in 2016, led to the conviction last year of a public health official for abusing his office.
Extra funds assigned to those helping victims of domestic violence
PM Eduard Heger grants millions to organisations from his reserve fund. (Source: Sme - Ján Krošlák)
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The pandemic has highlighted that home is not necessarily a safe place for everyone. The government will offer help centres for domestic abuse victims €3 million in funding from the prime minister’s reserve fund.
On Monday this information was disclosed by PM Eduard Heger alongside Finance Minister Igor Matovič (both OĽaNO).
The money, said Heger, is supposed to help women who need it the most. He also disclosed his belief that the prime minister’s reserve should be used for solving the real problems that people face. The prime ministerial reserve fund has been highly criticised in the past as a non-systemic and non-transparent solution. For example, after the previous prime minister Peter Pellegrini (now Hlas) granted hundreds of thousands of euros to various organisations in the past, the non-gover
International Civil Society Letter to President Zelensky re. Draft Law #3450
OPEN LETTER SENT BY EMAIL AND POST TO:
Mr. Zelensky, President of Ukraine
16th February 2021
Dear President Zelensky,
We, the undersigned organisations join our voices to this letter from the Board of Trustees of the Whistleblowing International Network (WIN) to urge your leadership to defend the integrity of the law that protects those who risk their careers to fight corruption and block proposed draft Bill which undermines effective protection for public interest whistleblowing in Ukraine.
In December 2019, Ukraine enacted landmark anti-corruption legislation which included whistleblowing protection provisions which were unsurpassed in their compliance with international best practices principles.
Mobster Marian Kočner used to call him Gambino. He feared the idea that Daniel Lipšic could get into power because the state would then start paying attention to how Kočner and his friend Norbert Bödör earned their millions.
When Robert Fico s government started wobbling after the murder of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová, Kočner conversed about it in the coded Threema app with tax fraudster Ladislav Bašternák. F k, it s headed for a fall. When it falls, we won t have time to leave. Every press conference is like you and me, and Bödör mooched hundreds of millions of euros. I never fear anything, but I m starting to be afraid. Laco, if this falls, we will go into custody the next day. Said Matovič and Lipšic, Kočner wrote back then.
News digest: Some schools won’t open, British variant prevails in the capital
Branches of the Foreigners’ Police still remain closed, trains from Budapest to continue to Prague. You need to sign in to follow this author: Login | Register (Source: Sme)
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Not all schools will open
Some municipalities have announced that they will not open kindergartens and years one to four of primary schools from February 8, as the Education Ministry had decided on February 3.