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16 Jan 2015

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Luxemburger Wort

Luxembourg: PricewaterhouseCoopers dismisses whistleblower who leaked documents re corporate tax avoidance

"PwC employee fired for leaking tax documents", 10 Jan 2015

Consulting firm PwC [PricewaterhouseCoopers] Luxembourg has dismissed an employee for stealing confidential documents and forwarding them to the journalist syndicate behind LuxLeaks. PwC made an announcement on their website, saying that among the documents stolen were the corporate tax returns of 16 companies. These items were published by the ICIJ, a consortium of investigative journalists on November 6, 2014, along with other documents, in the first phase of LuxLeaks…PwC said...the case had been handed to the prosecution...