Reporting corruption at workplace without consequences - Web portal Pistaljka.rs launched

- Since yesterday (July 29, 2010), the citizens of Serbia can report suspected corruption on web portal www.pistaljka.rs, while remaining protected from retaliation - said the website's editor Vladimir Radomirovic.

Speaking at a press conference called to present Pistaljka (Whistle) to the public, Radomirovic said that the whistle blowers' reports of alleged corruption would be checked and verified by journalists and lawyers from the site.

Radomirovic said that the first report had already been submitted to the website on Thursday and that it concerned corruption in health care sector.

Speaking about his personal experience in reporting corruption, Goran Milosevic from Smederevo, a worker of Putevi Srbije who provided information on "road mob", said at the press conference that he had been experiencing problems during the whole court process against the group of people accused of that theft.

Milosevic, who was left without job in Putevi Srbije for three years because of his "whistleblowing", claims that it bothers him a lot when "someone represents himself as the regional leader in the fight against corruption", while the same person refused to respond to his warnings concerning the "road mob".

Web portal pistaljka.rs is created within the scope of the namesake project for fight against corruption, which is being implemented by the Migrations Research Center, the Journalism Center of Eutopia Association, and Media Praksa. The project implementation is backed by the embassies of Norway and the United States of America to Serbia.