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- Whistleblowing
The Sports Governing Body That Went Public With Its Investigation
A European-based world governing body of a sport (Organisation A) went public with an investigation into the leader (Person A) of one of its teams...
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The Whistleblower Jailed for Revealing the Misuse of Public Money
In the mid-2010s, an official at a trade union in a European country became suspicious about the misuse of funds that had been designated to support...
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The Whistleblower Fired Three Times for Exposing Criminal Activity
A security officer for a publicly owned transportation company in a European country had three dismissals overturned by a judge after an employment...
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The Whistleblower Who Exposed the Multinational’s Misconduct-Fuelled Expansion
In 2022, a former high-ranking official at a major tech firm leaked 124,000 confidential documents to a newspaper that shared the information with...
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The Company Failures That Led to Salmonella in Babies
A dairy company’s failure to act on information about long-standing contamination in a partner organisation’s factory led to babies displaying...
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The Whistleblower Smeared in the Press for Raising Greenwashing Concerns
An EU-based asset management company employed a new Group Sustainability Officer. However, she found that the company was vastly overreporting the...
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The Tax Rebate Scheme That Cost Countries Billions
In the early-2010s, a tax official in a European country, referred to as Country A in this anonymised case study, noticed an unusually large number...
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Fraud Within a Sporting Organisation
The vice-president (hereafter referred to as Person A) of an international sporting body based in the European Union (Company A) and president of a...
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Ignoring the Mistreatment of Women
In the spring of 2021, a prominent investment bank incurred a loss of US$5.5 billion relating to the default of a capital management firm with which...
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