Australia’s Treasury Refers PwC Tax Scandal to Police for Probe

The Australian government has referred a PricewaterhouseCoopers tax scandal to the police and asked them to consider a criminal investigation as political scrutiny mounts.

PwC Australia’s former head of international tax, Peter Collins “improperly used confidential Commonwealth information,” according to a statement Wednesday from Steven Kennedy, secretary to the treasury.

The accounting firm’s troubles center on revelations that Collins had been barred by regulators for leaking government secrets — obtained while he was on a confidential advisory board — to other PwC staff.

Emails dating to 2014-2017, released following demands from Parliament, showed PwC partners using that information to ...