Anticoruptie.md of the Center for Investigative Journalism was awarded in the “Journalists of the year” Gala, 2016 edition for the best media product of the year in investigations. Also, under the event held on Friday, December 16, the platform received National Journalistic Ethics and Professional Deontology Award 2016.

The team of the portal was awarded at the category “Investigative Journalism. Journalist Iurie Sanduta from RISE Moldova received the award from the same category. Also, the portal is winner of the National Journalistic Ethics and Professional Deontology Award 2016, awarded by the Press Council. Anticoruptie.md, Newsmaker.md and the weekly “Ziarul de garda” were the finalists of this contest, which were selected based on a voting procedure that consisted of a number of stages. Thus, between July 20 and November 15, 2016, the media consumers could vote on the website www.mediaforum.md for the nine media outlets that were nominated for the National Journalistic Ethics and Professional Deontology Award 2016. 

Gala „Journalists of the year” is at its 22nd edition and is organized by the Center for Independent Journalism and by the Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Anticoruptie.md is the first online platform for reporting cases of corruption and related crimes in the Republic of Moldova. You can report abuses and improper behavior of officials, influence peddling, conflict of interests and inconsistencies, lack of transparency in public institutions and mismanagement of public money, unreported or illegally acquired property and other situations and events generating corruption. Concept www.anticoruptie.md was issued by the team of the Center for Investigative Journalism in 2012 under the Campaign „Zero Tolerance to Corruption! Be Active and Fight Corruption!” that was carried out with the support of Good Governance Program of Soros Foundation Moldova. Currently, this portal is part of the project „Shining a light on corruption in Moldova”, carried out by Freedom House in partnership with the Center for Investigative Journalism and is financed by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry.

In April 2016, the portal was among the three participant media outlets for Special Prize offered by One World Media. Anticoruptie.md, Nómada.gt in Guatemala and Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently in Syria will compete for this Special Prize.