Ex-PwC employee tells court he had a 'duty' to act on sweetheart tax deals

April 29 2016

Raphael Halet, a PwC employee on trial in the so-called ‘LuxLeaks’ tax scandal, said he decided to act after seeing a France 2 television report in 2012, a story it later transpired was based on the alleged leak of 30,000 tax documents by ex-PwC auditor Antoine Deltour.

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