Luxemburg: Whistleblowers condemned in LuxLeaks Trial, Journalist Acquitted
by Annelies Vandendriessche On June 29th 2016, the Correctional Tribunal of Luxembourg reached a verdict on the charges brought against Antoine Deltour, Raphaël Halet and Edouard Perrin in the so-called LuxLeaks Trial. The trial concerned the leaking of over 45 000 pages of confidential documents by the three men, which revealed the tax deals concluded between large multinational companies and the Luxembourgish tax authorities (For further information on the trial, see: "The LuxLeaks Trial" by Annelies Vandendriessche.
Deltour and Halet were condemned on charges of domestic theft (Article 464 Criminal Code), fraudulent access to a database (Articles 509-1 until 509-7…
