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The Whistleblowers Who Cracked Open Europe's Tax Haven

When two PwC employees leaked Luxembourg's secret tax deals, they exposed an industrial-scale machinery of avoidance—and sparked a reckoning that would reach the European Commission itself.

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Antoine Deltour did not set out to become a symbol. In 2010, he was a mid-level auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Luxembourg, the kind of professional who moved through glass towers with a briefcase and a non-disclosure agreement. But somewhere in the architecture of confidential tax rulings—documents that promised multinational giants like Apple and Amazon rates so low they bordered on the fictional—he found something he could not reconcile with the public interest. Before leaving PwC, he copied thousands of pages. Then he waited.

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