A journalistic team from South Africa that exposed an elite unit that killed dozens of people has won the Dusko Jovanovic Foundation’s International Press Prize

By B92

The awards are given to investigative reporters in memory of Dusko Jovanovic, editor-in-chief of the Montenegrin daily Dan who was murdered 11 years ago.

The second prize was given to journalist from Serbia Stevan Dojcinovic, while the third went to Egyptian journalist Ahmed El Shamy, announced the jury’s president, B92 News Editor-in-Chief Veran Matic.

The South African team, led by Stefan Hofstatter, received a prize of EUR 10,000 euros.

Dojcinovic was awarded EUR 6,000 for his story about the Balkans cocaine cartel “Saric”, while El Shamy received EUR 4,000 for his reporting about rape and sexual harassment in the family.

The jury members included Croatian journalist Berislav Jelinic, journalist from Bosnia-Herzegovina Zeljko Kopanja, Dan Editor-in-Chief Mladen Milutinovic, and one of the paper’s editors, Nikola Markovic.

The prize is given once in four years. This year, 47 works were submitted to the jury.

Dojcinovic’s book, “Saric – How the Balkan cocaine cartel concquered Europe”, is published by Samizdat B92 and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).