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By Marta Erquicia
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On 27 November, TI celebrated in Montevideo, Uruguay the award ceremony for the 2007 Best Journalistic Investigation carried out on a corruption case in Latin America. The award was given to Lúcio Vaz of the Correio Braziliense who revealed corruption involving the diversion of millions in state funds for the fraudulent purchase of ambulances - one of the greatest cases of parliamentary corruption in the history of Brazil. |
The first prize was shared with a series of reportages carried out by 11 journalists of the Colombian magazine Semana concerning the gradual incursion of paramilitary groups in national politics.
The 2008 edition of the prize was launched 7 November 2007 by the organisers: the Press and Society Institute (IPYS) and Transparency International for Latin America and the Caribbean (TILAC). Through this prize, TI aspires to increase the quality of investigative journalism and to build a closer alliance with a key sector for the fight against corruption.
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