Australian Federal Police Raid PwC Office Amid Tax Scandal

Published on November 4, 2024

The offices of international consultants and auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Sydney’s Barangaroo—at the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge—have been raided by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) as part of an ongoing investigation into the leaking of confidential information. The AFP are expected to remain there for days. The firm had advised the government on new laws to cut down on tax avoidance by multinational corporations. As part of that work, it had access to secret Treasury documents, which it then allegedly leaked to clients—including Google, Uber, and Facebook—to help them avoid the effects of those laws....

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