A collaboration between Investigative Journalism Foundation reporter Zak Vescera and CTV News has been recognized with a nomination for an award from LION Publishers.

The collaboration of the year nod is for the IJF and CTV’s reporting on the Canadian company at the centre of an alleged multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme targeting people in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. In its announcement of the nomination in the 2025 LION Sustainability Awards, LION applauded the reporting for “exposing significant regulatory gaps in Canada’s corporate oversight system.”