Zarig.mn website awarded Transparency Award for fighting corruption

Society
baljmaa@montsame.gov.mn
2019-12-02 17:16:18

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Transparency Award 2019 by the Transparency International Mongolia was given to Mongolian video news website zarig.mn. 


The award dubbed as ‘Anti-Corruption Award’ is presented annually to individuals and organizations honoring their consistent actions to combat against corruption and for transparency.


www.zarig.mn website, established in 2017, is known among the Mongolian public for their investigative reporting exposing corruption and unethical or illegal acts. 


The Transparency Award was given for the fifth year, with previous awardees were late journalist, L.Bolormaa, former journalist of Mongol TV E.Lkhagva, freelance journalist ‘De Facto’ D.Jargalsaikhan and editor of ikon.mn website Ch.Bolortuya. 


Global civil society organisation - Transparency International, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, has been working to combat global corruption with civil societal anti-corruption measures and to prevent criminal activities arising from corruption since 1993.