Massive support for investigative reporter accused of ’betraying trade secrets’
By Jane Whyatt
German investigative reporter Oliver Schröm faces a possible three years in jail just for doing his job by exposing wrongdoing on a massive scale.
Oliver Schröm. Foto: Ivo Mayr, Correctiv
As the Editor-in-Chief of Correctiv he built a team to uncover the so-called Cum Ex scandal which is estimated to have defrauded European taxpayers out of 55.2 billion euros in unpaid taxes.
Correctiv’s strongly-worded open letter to Germany’s Justice Minister Katarina Barley and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz gathered more than 15,000 signatures in just one day. The letter is headed: ’Journalism is not a crime’ and points out that the journalistic investigation…