Snowballing KPMG scandal sure to claim more casualties

June 1, 2026 — 1:47pm

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It’s a dead-heat in the competition for KPMG’s worst sin. The contenders are firstly, that it leaked confidential client information to win new corporate accounts, and secondly, its cascading attempts to cover up the scandal.

It has taken more than two years and the tenacity of a relentless whistleblower for the first serious signs of sunlight’s antiseptic to be applied to what is a growing list of alleged instances in which private information of KPMG clients was used/abused to win other large service contracts, including auditing work.

But KPMG’s ability to audit its own behaviour has come up woefully short.

How can it offer services it markets to customers to advise on the establishment and robust working of their whistleblower functions, when its own structure has failed epically?

What whistleblower scandal? KPMG continues to dish out advice

John Buckley and Fiona Byrne

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