PRISHTINA – Government staffer Murat Mehmeti blew the whistle on a massive tax scam involving shell companies that his bosses in Kosovo’s Tax Administration notably failed to follow up. Details of the major fraud were revealed on November 17 by the Kosovo bureau of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN).

The story was aired on BIRN’s show “Jeta ne Kosove” after it broadcast the first episode of a trilogy on “Organized Tax Theft”, revealing how an estimated 25 million euros went missing.

Read the incredible story here.