Investigative journalism award to Adrian Mogos

Gambling - new cross-border research in South-Eastern Europe

Published 2009  - A team of journalists took a deeper look into the gambling houses sprouting up all over South-Eastern Europe. The investigation in six countries shows the real winners are businessmen with shady pasts, criminal records and connections to powerful people.

Large scale corruption? The BAE files

/research since 2004-ongoing/ - Did British Aerospace, BAE, pay huge bribes to get an arms deal? The question has kept Guardian investigative editor David Leigh and his colleague Rob Evans busy for years now.

The Farmsubsidy project

/resarch since 2004-ongoing/ - A loose network of journalists, academics and activists united with one aim: To get access to data about the recipients of the EU farmsubsidies. Contrary to yearlong political rethoric, the bulk of money turned out to go to large landowners, old nobility, large corporations. The data are gathered on the Farmsubsidy website.

Buy a baby for € 30.000

BRUSSELS - 8/4/2009 - New journalistic investigation reports about trade in babies and the use of surrogate mothers with links to Moldova. Clients come from Italy, Germany, England and Belgium, the new report found.

The world's most smuggled legal substance

/Published late 2008/ - Global team of journalists looks into the multibillion-dollar business of illicit traficking of tobacco around the world.

The secret reports about side-effects of pharmaceuticals

/Published Autumn 2008/ - A Danish-Dutch-Belgian team set out to look into the secret reports on side-effects of pharmaceuticals, the upcoming EU-legislation on pharmaceutical and the ongoing lobbying in Brussels.

Illegal cod on your table

/ published in 2006/

- The Swedish investigative reporters trio Troikan in it’s  report “The Illegal Cod” uncovered how western companies cooperated with russian mafiaorganisations to fish in the Barents sea, the only place on earth where there is still a healty population of cod.

Rent a womb

/published 2006/ - A German-Ukrainian team looked into the schemes where poor Ukrainian women function as surrogate mothers for Western couples.

The energy brokers

/published 2006-2007/ - How comes, that people have to sit in the dark in countries, that produce more power, than they consume? This and other questions were asked by a team of journalists in the Balkans. Together they looked into the structures behind the privatised energy producers in their countries.

Ghostplane

/published 2006 and onwards/ - While the war on terror was on it’s height, the first journalists started to take a closer look, among them Stephen Grey in his book and website Ghostplane.

The broken promise

/published 2004/ - In “The Broken Promise” the Swedish investigative team Troikan for investigative programme Kalla Fakta managed to expose for the first time that the secret US government airplane N379P is used to ferry suspected terrorists to brutal interrogation.

Gagged in Britain, published in Norway

BRUSSELS - 1 / 11 / 2009 - Four media in three countries united to research a company, that was registered in the two of them and active in the third. When a court injunction prohibited media in one country to publish, a report revealing more about the dangerous waste could be published in one of the other countries.