A former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee, convicted after revealing details of how some of the world’s biggest companies dodged taxes by setting up a base in Luxembourg, won his bid to be recognized as a whistleblower rather than a criminal who stole private data.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled by a twelve to five majority on Tuesday that “the public interest in the disclosure of that information outweighed all of the detrimental effects arising from it.” Raphael Halet’s right to freedom of expression had been violated and his original criminal conviction had a “chilling effect” on others who might speak ...
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