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whistleblower

a person, usually an employee, who reveals information, which he is contractually obliged to keep secret, because of an overriding public interest. The principle was recently introduced into the UK by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, which has, for example, resulted in an accountant who was dismissed for exposing financial irregularities of his manager to the company headquarters in the USA being awarded not that much short of £300,000.

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After alerting the agency to the violations, the whistleblower provided extensive and ongoing cooperation during the course of the investigation, including the review of documents and the provision of sworn testimony, and continued to provide additional new information that advanced the investigation.

SEC Awards More Than $1.8 Million to Whistleblower

An officer duly authorized by the Commission may make an assessment of the Whistleblower Information within a period of sixty days from receipt of the complaint.

Whistleblower law-- a novel step to eliminate corruption

ISLAMABAD -- The PTI's government in the Thursday's National Assembly introduced seven bills, including 'the Whistleblower Protection and Vigilance Commission bill' with an aim to provide mechanism for whistleblower information by providing some 'incentives'.

Govt tables bills in NA to end corruption, protect women rights

(TAP) - President of the National Anti-Corruption Authority (INLUCC) Chawki Tabib, on Tuesday, urged the Prime Ministry to publish the regulatory decrees related to the law on the exposure of corruption and protection of whistleblowers to facilitate work of the Authority.

Tabib urges Prime Ministry to issue regulatory decrees governing protection of whistleblowers

However, this person must be employed by the same employer as the whistleblower.In addition, a person who will take action against whistleblowers at their workplace without the new authority's prior approval, or disclose the whistleblower's name, will take administrative responsibility for their actions.

A new authority will protect Slovak whistleblowers

MPs along with the Cyprus Integrity Forum (CIF) have called for the adoption of legislation to encourage potential whistleblowers to come forward in the public interest in a war on corruption.

SOCIETY: Cyprus unable to protect whistleblowers

In 2006, Congress passed Public Law 109-432, the first substantial revision to the whistleblower statute since its creation 139 years before.

The IRS Whistleblower Regulations: A Hindrance to Tax Enforcement

According to the proposed law, a Whistleblower Reward Fund financed mainly by the exchequer and donors would be established.

Bill proposes to pay whistleblowers 10%

A number of best practice guides and international actors use the term 'whistle blowing' when referring to internal reporting, including the 2013 Transparency International principles for whistleblower legislation, 2011 OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises and the British Standards Institute's 2008 whistle blowing arrangements code of practice.

Whistle- blowing

To be successful, the whistleblower program should provide an adequate incentive for whistleblowers to risk their reputations and careers and come forward with information, while also maintaining its ability to collect sufficient revenue to close the tax gap.

More Cheese for the Rats: Tax Court and Congress Give Big Win to Whistleblowers with Broad Definition of "Proceeds": Whistleblower 21276-13W v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

* The claims were denied due to examination or whistleblower issues that were a "no change" (in tax liability) or no "Title 26 Collected Proceeds" (seizure of assets under administrative or civil judicial procedures).

Whistleblower awards increase: Whistleblower reporting of illegal acts is key to effective law enforcement

Pistaljka ("The Whistle"), the investigative journalism website my wife, Dragana Matovic, and I founded seven years ago in Belgrade is devoted to whistleblowing and whistleblower protection.

"For every truth there is a source" Vladimir Radomirovic, NF >15, brings whistleblowers and journalists together at a conference in Belgrade