Luxembourg court convicts 2 in whistleblowing case
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Two former employees of an accounting firm have been found guilty of leaking thousands of secret documents to a journalist investigating sweetheart tax deals granted by Luxembourg to big foreign firms.
A local Luxembourg court convicted ex-PwC workers Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet of stealing private documents. They were sentenced Wednesday to suspended prison terms: 12 months for Deltour and nine months for Halet.
Journalist and co-defendant Edouard Perrin, who used the materials dubbed "LuxLeaks" for a series of exposes, was acquitted in the case.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The three were regarded as heroes by many for exposing Luxembourg's willingness to award large tax breaks to leading multinational companies.
The LuxLeaks scandal also proved a major embarrassment for EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who was Luxembourg's prime minister when the deals were made.