On International Anti-Corruption Day, marked on Friday, Transparency International - Moldova (TI-Moldova) made the totals of the contest "Reflecting the phenomenon of corruption by the mass media" and launched the collection of anti-corruption journalistic investigations. The jury awarded second place to the investigative journalist, Julieta Savițchi, for a series of investigations published on Anticoruptie.md, in which corruption schemes and embezzlement of public funds were uncovered.

Several investigations signed by Julieta Savițchi were published in the collection, which provoked extensive discussions in society and put the people involved on fire. The investigations revealed secrets kept with dozens of locks by officials and characters of dubious reputation, illegal schemes implemented, and defying common sense and the public interest.

Julieta Savițchi revealed how the former prime minister, Vladimir Filat, arranged a comfortable life for himself after his conditional release from prison. Together with the cameraman Anatol Matăsaru, the journalist captured the images of the opulence with which the ex-prime minister is surrounded: he lives in a luxurious building in a select neighborhood of the capital and drives around in expensive cars, and has a personal driver.

In another investigation, Julieta Savițchi showed how the family of the deputy general prosecutor, Ruslan Popov, under criminal investigation for illicit enrichment, controls, in addition to the orchard and the refrigerator in Mileştii Mici, a third of an agricultural business in Brăviceni village, Orhei district.

The journalist also uncovered the scheme by which the Westerby Limited company from the Bahamas sponsored the Socialist Party of the Republic of Moldova.

Pavel Păduraru from Jurnal TV was awarded first prize in the contest for journalistic investigations on corruption . Iurie Sanduța from rise.md and Julieta Saviţchi from anticoruptie.md were aworded second prize. Third place went to Victor Moșneag from zdg.md.

The event was carried out within the project "Civil society mobilization for monitoring and reporting on the integrity of state institutions and anti-corruption activities in Moldova" implemented by Transparency International - Moldova with the support of the Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Section of the Embassy of the United States of America in Chisinau.

The rewarding  of the journalists was possible thanks to the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.