BIRN Kosovo Wins Anti-Corruption Reporting Award

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The Association of Journalists in Kosovo in cooperation with United Nations Development Programme and the Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency awarded BIRN Kosovo for the Best Television Story on Transparency and Anti-Corruption at the Anti-Corruption Journalism Awards on December 9.

Kosovo BIRN Award 2016

The award was given to BIRN Kosovo’s TV programme ‘Justice in Kosovo’ for a story by journalist Naim Krasniqi entitled ‘The Wrong Lunch’.

Krasniqi investigated how a prosecutor named Visar Musa was attending lunches with indicted suspects despite the fact that their cases were yet to finish working their way through the courts.

After the story was aired, the prosecutor tendered his resignation.

The award was presented during Anti-Corruption Week in Kosovo.