The Quiet Man Who Made Big Trouble for Little Luxembourg
Hero or Criminal? Exposing Luxembourg's Tax Secrets
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Antoine Deltour sees himself as “just a little auditor” who copied some tax files. Now he may face jail after those documents helped send a shock wave through Luxembourg that is reverberating across the European Union.
Deltour became disillusioned with what he saw in his auditing job at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Luxembourg and in 2010 decided to quit. On the way out, he took along a copy of an internal folder containing hundreds of confidential tax agreements between the Grand Duchy and multinational companies.