Luxembourg
is trying to throw two French whistleblowers and a journalist in
prison for their role in the “LuxLeaks” exposé that revealed the
tiny country’s outsized role in enabling corporate tax avoidance.
The trial of
Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet, two former employees of the
international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, and journalist
Edouard Perrin began Tuesday.
Deltour and
Halet were charged in connection with theft of PwC documents. Perrin
is charged as an accomplice for steering Halet toward documents that
he considered of particular interest.
Perrin, a
reporter with Premières Lignes Television in Paris, produced the
first LuxLeaks reporting. PwC documents were later obtained by the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and, together
with records from other accounting giants, formed the basis for the
2014 “LuxLeaks” series involving over 80 journalists across the
world.
Among the
many prominent supporters of the defendants, France’s Finance
Minister Michel Sapin told the French parliament Tuesday that Deltour
was “defending the general interest” and that he “would like to
offer him all our solidarity.” Almost 175,000 people have signed a
petition in support of Deltour.
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Things can become even worse
concerning other cases like LuxLeaks, through which it has been
revealed that Luxemburg was - and still is - a tax haven at the
expense of the rest of the European "partners". That's
because in this case, not only there is nothing illegal, but the
mechanism of the tax evasion was orchestrated and legislated by
the state of Luxemburg. Besides, this is the reason for which the
whistleblower Antoine Deltour, as well as, Edouard Perrin, the
journalist who published LuxLeaks scandal, are going to trial next
week in the Large Dukedom of Jean-Claude Juncker.
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