MEPs attending trial of a French journalist and two former PwC employees vow to propose whistleblowers’ charterA trial of three people accused of involvement in the leaking of documents that revealed industrial scale tax avoidance has begun in Luxembourg,with attending MEPs vowing to propose a whistleblowers’ constitution to prevent such cases in future.
The so-called Luxleaks revelations brought to light multibillion-euro sweetheart deals for companies including Amazon, Ikea and Shire Pharmaceuticals, and causing an international tax outrage that rocked the European commission president,Jean-Claude Juncker, and set the scene for the Panama Papers.
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Source: theguardian.com