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by company- TerraCom Limited €4.18m 100 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies €3,000 0 % · 1 case
- Východoslovenská vodárenská spoločnosť, a.s. €2,000 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | €3,000 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2025 | 2 | €4.18m |
| 2026 | 0 | – |
3 cases
26 Aug 2025 TerraCom LimitedTerraCom: AUD 7.5m penalty for victimising a whistleblower €4.18m
In 2020 the ASX-listed coal mining company used two ASX announcements and an open letter to shareholders to present as false the allegations of a former senior employee about coal quality certificates amended without proper justification, although an independent investigation at least partly supported them. On the basis of an admission and a jointly proposed penalty, the Court found a contravention of the prohibition on victimising whistleblowers and allegedly imposed AUD 7.5 million (payable in two instalments); TerraCom also pays AUD 1 million of ASIC’s costs. It is ASIC’s first enforcement outcome for breaches of the whistleblower protection provisions.
Public statements about whistleblower allegations should be legally reviewed beforehand, as even disparaging announcements can amount to prohibited detriment.
Protecting whistleblowers from detriment, including through the company’s public statements
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Federal Court of Australia (auf Antrag der Australian Securities and Investments Commission, ASIC)
- Area of law
- Whistleblower protection · Retaliation against whistleblowers
- Legal basis
- s 1317AC(1) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth); Strafe nach s 1317G
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Culpability
- intentional
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- Admission of the contravention and jointly proposed penalty following mediation; revised whistleblower policy and training for senior leaders and the board in May 2025; no previous court findings of a similar kind.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not set out here.
- Published
- 27 Aug 2025
Original amount 7,500,000 AUD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 26 Aug 2025.
- ASIC 25-179MR: TerraCom to pay $7.5 million after ASIC whistleblower action Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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21 Mar 2025 Východoslovenská vodárenská spoločnosť, a.s.East Slovak water company: 2,000 EUR for missing information on external reporting channels €2,000
The Úrad na ochranu oznamovateľov (Slovak Whistleblower Protection Office) initially imposed 10,000 EUR because the water utility’s policy named an e-mail address that had been deactivated since October 2022 as a reporting channel available around the clock and because employees were not informed comprehensibly about external reporting channels. On appeal, the head of the authority dropped the e-mail allegation for procedural reasons, set aside the part concerning the failure to acknowledge a report and set the fine at 2,000 EUR solely for the missing information on reporting channels to the competent authorities (September 2023 to September 2024).
Test reporting channels regularly: an undeliverable whistleblower address is as good as none at all.
Functioning internal reporting channels for whistleblowers
- Authority / court
- Úrad na ochranu oznamovateľov (Slowakei)
- Area of law
- Whistleblower protection · Missing or inadequate reporting channel
- Legal basis
- § 10 Abs. 5, § 19 Abs. 3 Gesetz Nr. 54/2019 über den Schutz von Hinweisgebern
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- reduced
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Culpability
- negligent
- Rozhodnutie predsedníčky ÚOO z 21. 3. 2025, UOO-272/2025 (Východoslovenská vodárenská spoločnosť) Decision of an authority
- Rozhodnutie ÚOO z 11. 2. 2025, UOO-19/2025 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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1 Mar 2023 a Slovak pipeline operatorSlovak pipeline operator: 3,000 EUR – corruption report to the board never examined €3,000
In October 2021, an employee of the pipeline operator reported by e-mail to the chair of the board and director general the suspicion of an overpriced contract. The company did not accept the report as a whistleblower report, did not register it, did not examine it within 90 days and did not inform the whistleblower of the outcome.
Reports received informally by the management board also trigger the reporting office’s examination and feedback deadlines.
Recognising reports and forwarding them to the reporting office – including those addressed to managers
- Authority / court
- Úrad na ochranu oznamovateľov (Slowakisches Amt für Hinweisgeberschutz)
- Area of law
- Whistleblower protection · Missing or inadequate reporting channel
- Legal basis
- Zákon č. 54/2019 Z. z. o ochrane oznamovateľov protispoločenskej činnosti, § 10 Abs. 5 und 7, § 11 Abs. 1, § 19 Abs. 1
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Úrad na ochranu oznamovateľov, Entscheidungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 1 Mar 2025 · Direct link