Friday, April 24, 2015

Luxembourg court charges journalist over LuxLeaks scandal

A court in Luxembourg has charged a journalist for leaking documents which implicated the country in a tax-rate fixing scandal know as LuxLeaks.

It centred around around 28 thousand documents which showed Luxembourg allowed companies like Ikea, Deutsche Bank and Apple to pay very small amounts of tax in order to attract them to set up base in the EU country.

Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports. 

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