Antoine Deltour, 30, a former auditor at global accounting firm PwC, is accused of stealing documents from his employer before he quit the company in 2010.
These included some 28,000 pages, detailing tax agreements between 340 companies and the Luxembourg government that allowed them to avoid billions of dollars in taxes.
The documents eventually found their way to French journalist Edouard Perrin who broke the story in 2012 in the “Cash Investigation” programme on state-owned France 2 television.
Two years later, the documents found their way to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which revealed the full extent of the industrial-scale tax breaks won by these companies.
Edouard Perrin is also on trial, as well as another former PwC employee, Raphäel Halet, who is accused of being behind a separate leak.
The criminal trial in Luxembourg is expected to last until May 4. PwC has also launched civil proceedings.
‘Horrified’
Deltour’s leak was the biggest of its kind until the Panama Papers scandal in 2016, which exposed links between a number of corporations and international leaders and offshore shell companies that are sometimes used to launder illegal cash.
According to Deltour, before he left PwC in 2010, he searched for training documents to take with him in preparation for finding a new job...
france24.com
26/4/16
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