The trial of whistleblower Antoine Deltour -but also the journalist Edouard Perrin-opened Tuesday morning in Luxembourg. With the backing of a support committee (friends, sympathizers Attac or the platform of tax havens), a hundred activists chanting under the windows of tribunal “It’s not Antoine to be judged! This is tax evasion by an organized gang! “ In the courtroom, the presiding judge, Marc Thill, brings order, in the American style, refuting matters not predefined framework by local law: theft and violation of business confidentiality. Reframing lawyers who attempt to broaden the debate on financial transparency:
At the outset, an etymological debate “General question too!”. The firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), a member of the “Big Four” auditing, complains of “theft of documents” : the revelation, by issuing Cash Investigation on France 2 and then through the International Consortium of investigative journalists (ICIJ), small and large fiscal arrangements multinationals based in Luxembourg, care of PWC. Simple “subtraction” at this stage of the trial, the president corrects Thill, anxious not to appear to prejudge. A good point for him, except that he does not seem like entering a few salads appendices, as summarized this exchange between the lawyer Antoine Deltour, William Bourdon, the representative of the alleged victim (PWC), Anita Bouvy, and a presiding judge pretended to arbitrate inelegances
M th Bourdon. “Your documentation deemed protected, was easily accessible
President Thill: – Your question is suggestive, Master
the representative of PWC. Yes, access was easy but I would put a caveat. He had a desire to access
M th Bourdon. -From made revelations, you have strengthened the inaccessibility of data
The president, clearly worried: -The firm she set up for a tighter system, more serious
? PWC: Yes. Today there is no more fear. “
internal warning Process
Heard Tuesday as a civil party, PWC nevertheless passed on the grill. Concerned, his little gentlemen’s agreement signed with another former employee, Raphael Halet, who also sent the info to Cash Investigation. End 2014 the firm the threat of dismissal with a request for compensation of 10 million euros. “In all honesty, I do not think I pressured anything” , believes he can proclaim Anita Bouvy. A testimony to the bar will remain in judicial annals as PWC and Halet budge the symbolic euro after the former employee future will balance his former employer future exchanges with the journalist -via a mail box titled “100000dollarsausoleil “… at this point of the debate, the lawyer Edward Perrin, Olivier Chapuis, protests: ” If Halet had not given, it would be liable to prosecution for 10 million “ President Thill tempers: “This is a consequence you pull, master, not a question.”
one more for the road, before resuming discussions with hearing of defense witnesses, including several MEPs. This dialogue of the deaf between the representative of PWC and M th Bourdon on internal warning process:
The representative of PWC: “-Any employee noticed an anomaly may refer to ethic officer, as sexual harassment
M th Bourdon. -Agreements tax covered by PWC are they constitute an offense or a fault
The representative of PWC: -They are completely legal, as in Luxembourg other countries
M th Bourdon. -But can raise some qualms among your employees
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the representative of PWC: -It is not the purpose of our internal procedure “
from the outrageous tax disguised as political correctness
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