Bloomberg Law
April 26, 2016, 3:49 PM UTC

LuxLeaks Trial Shows Peril of Blowing Whistle on Tax Dodgers

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By Stephanie Bodoni, Bloomberg News

As aftershocks from the Panama Papers revelations rumble on from Reykjavik to Santiago, three men went on trial in Luxembourg on Tuesday in a case that may determine the role of whistle-blowers in global tax scandals.

Two former PricewaterhouseCoopers staffers Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet risk as long as five years in jail for allegedly stealing hundreds of private documents cataloging tax pacts between big companies and Luxembourg authorities. Journalist Edouard Perrin, another French national, is also accused of urging on Halet in his search for secret files at the firm.

While PwC and ...

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