by Annelies VandendriesscheOn 29 June 2016, the Correctional Tribunal of Luxembourg found Antoine Deltour and Raphaël Halet guilty of domestic theft, fraudulent access to a database, breach of professional secrecy, violation of trade secrets, and laundering and possession of illegally obtained material in the so-called LuxLeaks Trial. The trial concerned the large-scale leaking of confidential documents revealing tax deals concluded between large multinational companies and the Luxembourgish tax authorities. The journalist Edouard Perrin was acquitted. The Tribunal, though recognising Deltour and Halet as ‘whistleblowers’, referred to the lack of existing legislation at national and European level which would protect…
