Powerful US and UK committees lobbied to pressure PwC to release report sought in Australia

Exclusive: Richard Colbeck urged counterparts to seek document used to clear firm's partners of wrongdoing

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Powerful parliamentary oversight committees in the US and the UK have been urged to pressure consultancy firm PwC to publish a report used to clear its international partners of wrongdoing.

In response to a scandal involving the misuse of confidential Australian Treasury information about proposed multinational tax avoidance laws, PwC global commissioned the law firm Linklaters to investigate the conduct of its international partners.

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