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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Henry Belot

‘This is not over’: Treasury flags further action against PwC Australia over additional breaches of confidence

PwC signage on a building in Sydney
Labor’s Deborah O’Neill, who is a member of a Senate inquiry that has exposed the scale of the PwC scandal, says the additional breaches need to be taken ‘very seriously’. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The federal treasury is assessing what further action to take against PwC Australia in response to the firm revealing a number of additional confidentiality breaches involving government secrets.

The treasury has already referred the firm to the Australian federal police, which has an ongoing investigation into how confidential information about multinational tax policy was misused to make millions of dollars from private sector clients.

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