FJA 2019

Category: Outstaning Investigative Reporting

First Prize

DIEGO CABOT

THE NOTEBOOKS OF CORRUPTION

The bribe notebooks: there are 12 people in custody and more raids are in preparation

La Nación - August 1, 2018

The original publication is available via the following link (Spanish): https://www.lanacion.com.ar/tema/cuadernos--la-investigacion-que-cambio-la-historia-tid65532

After months of investigation, authorities arrested ex members of the Kirchner administration and businesspeople, under a legal case that could become an Argentine Lava Jato. Some of the closest collaborators during the years of the administration of Nestor Kirchner and of his exminister of Planning, Julio De Vido, have been brought before the courts, accused of being part of an illegal association, dedicated, at least over 10 years, to collect bags full of money handed over by contractors of public works all over Buenos Aires.

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The story behind the story of the bribe notebooks

The original publication is available via the following link (Spanish)https://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/la-historia-detras-de-la-historia-nid2158444

By Diego Cabot

La Nación – August 2, 2018

The most brutal narrative of how corruption works in Argentina

Diego Cabot – La Nación – August 12, 2018

The original publication is available via the following link (Spanish)https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/el-relato-mas-brutal-de-la-historia-sobre-como-funciona-la-corrupcion-en-la-argentina-nid2161618

“The public works club”: the obscene show of corruption

The original publication is available via the following link (Spanish): : https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/el-club-obra-publica-obsceno-show-corrupcion-nid2163761

August 19, 2018


Secret stories, prisoners, and confessors: frantic hours in the first days of the case

Diego Cabot 

La Nación - September 24, 2018

The original publication is available via the following link (Spanish)https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/historias-secretas-presos-confesores-horas-freneticas-primeros-nid2174457