Tag: economic crime
Digitization security concerns – unrest in the railway supervisory board because of Huawei
Huawei logo Many politicians in the West are uneasy about the Chinese network supplier. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin The supervisory board of the state-owned Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) has reservations about…
IT security The Office for the Protection of the Constitution is critical of Huawei’s connection to Telekom and the railways
Berlin The Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Sinan Selen, has expressed concern about the connections of Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Bahn (DB) to…
Cum-Ex: Charges against Luxembourg fund managers
Paragraph sign on the entrance door of the Bonn Regional Court Cologne prosecutors have submitted a new charge in the Cum-Ex scandal to the Bonn Regional Court. (Photo: Ulrich Baumgarten…
Cum-Ex: Charges against Luxembourg fund managers
Paragraph sign on the entrance door of the Bonn Regional Court Cologne prosecutors have submitted a new charge in the Cum-Ex scandal to the Bonn Regional Court. (Photo: Ulrich Baumgarten…
How Deutsche Telekom tried to circumvent US sanctions
Telekom logo The contract between Telekom and Huawei is dated April 11, 2019. (Photo: Reuters) Hamburg, Brussels, Washington The relationship between Deutsche Telekom and the Chinese group Huawei may be…
Search at Mercedes – employees suspected of corruption
Group headquarters in Stuttgart Untertürkheim Mercedes employees are suspected of corruption. (Photo: imago images/Arnulf Hettrich) Berlin Buildings of the Stuttgart car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz have been searched as part of a…
Fund manager and 2 Warburg bankers in court
District Court of Bonn In addition to the Varengold business, the charges against the four Duet managers include eight US funds with which cum-ex deals were to be made in…
First insurance from Wirecard managers announces the end of payments
Markus Brown So far, manager liability insurance has had to pay the highest sums for the lawyers of the long-standing Wirecard boss. (Photo: dpa) Cologne A three-liner by the US…
Bafin initiates special tests against Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe and Varengold Bank
Headquarters of the Varengold Bank in Hamburg The institute is a well-known name in criminal proceedings relating to tax offences. (Photo: Varengold Bank AG) Dusseldorf The financial regulator Bafin wants…
Accused as prosecutor – ex-Wirecard boss Braun ends testimony
Ex-Wirecard boss Markus Braun Wirecard collapsed because 1.9 billion euros allegedly booked in trust accounts in Southeast Asia could not be found. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) Munich The first stage of…
Test case against EY over Wirecard bankruptcy begins
Frankfurt Damaged Wirecard shareholders are now taking on the auditor EY. On Monday, the Bavarian Supreme Regional Court (BayObLG) in Munich appointed the private investor Kurt Ebert as model plaintiff…
Ex-boss Markus Braun does not want to have known anything
Dusseldorf Markus Braun once lived in luxury, today he lives in a nine square meter cell in the Munich-Stadelheim correctional facility. His company Wirecard is bankrupt and Braun is accused…
An indictment of the rule of law
Hanno Berger The tax attorney was sentenced to just eight years in prison instead of the maximum sentence of 15 years – because the state is too slow. (Photo: dpa)…
Supervision complaint against the head of the Cologne public prosecutor’s office
Dispute in the NRW judiciary Benjamin Limbach, Anne Brorhilker and Peter Biesenbach (left to right): Are the authorities pushing the Cum-Ex investigations with all their might? Dusseldorf The clarification of…
Supervision complaint against the head of the Cologne public prosecutor’s office
Dispute in the NRW judiciary Benjamin Limbach, Anne Brorhilker and Peter Biesenbach (left to right): Are the authorities pushing the Cum-Ex investigations with all their might? Dusseldorf The clarification of…
JPMorgan files lawsuit against former top executive Jes Staley
Jes Staley New allegations against the bank’s former manager have surfaced in the wake of the lawsuits against JPMorgan. (Photo: Bloomberg) Denver The US bank JP Morgan Chase has filed…
JPMorgan files lawsuit against former top executive Jes Staley
Jes Staley New allegations against the bank’s former manager have surfaced in the wake of the lawsuits against JPMorgan. (Photo: Bloomberg) Denver The US bank JPMorgan Chase has filed a…
Jens Spahn denies contact with impostor Hendrik Holt
Osnabrueck, Dusseldorf It was an unusual appearance for ex-Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU). Accompanied by two bodyguards, the Union faction vice entered room 272 of the Osnabrück district court…
Vonovia: raid on the Dax 40 group
Vonovia headquarters in Bochum The real estate group is also being criticized for its decision to put all new construction projects on hold for this year. (Photo: imago images/Ina Fassbender)…
Markus Braun talks about his innocence
Ex-Wirecard boss Markus Braun Investigators are convinced that the supposedly most important part of Wirecard’s business, the third-party business, did not exist. Braun and his lawyers, on the other hand,…