Tag: White-collar crime
Lawsuit against Wirecard management because of loans over 140 million euros
Singapore skyline Wirecard loans of over 140 million euros are said to have leaked here. The insolvency administrator is therefore suing the management board and two supervisory boards. (Photo: imago…
AI expert Lauterbach is to advise payment service providers
Anastassia Lauterbach The AI expert is considered a gifted networker. (Photo: Marc-Steffen Unger for Handelsblatt) new York The former Wirecard controller Anastassia Lauterbach will be European head of the New…
Prosecutors are bringing charges against former Marsalek confidants
Wirecard The payment service provider slipped into bankruptcy in 2020. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf In the financial scandal surrounding the payment service provider Wirecard, the Munich public prosecutor’s office brought charges…
The number of proceedings and accused is increasing massively
Section symbols on a courthouse The public prosecutor’s offices in Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart are busy with cum-ex criminal proceedings. (Photo: dpa) Cologne For around ten years, prosecutors have…
The Handelsblatt with the secret report on the work of EY
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Wealthy customers betrayed – employees convicted
Sparkasse logo A private customer advisor at Sparkasse Werra-Meißner cheated wealthy, elderly customers for years. Strong internal pressure drove him into a gambling addiction, he said in court. (Photo: dpa)…
What particularly hurts perpetrators
Berlin It was a complete success for the “Para” investigative commission: the North Rhine-Westphalian investigators unearthed an illegal hawala banking system. Assets amounting to 22 million euros were secured. In…
Bernhard Günther: Suspect for acid attack delivered
Bernhard Günther A few days after the attack on him, it became known that the RWE subsidiary Innogy was to be broken up and parts of the competitor Eon were…
Senior manager had to leave on sexual harassment allegation
Deutsche Bank The young woman had sued a labor court against her dismissal. (Photo: imago images / Hans-Günther Oed) Frankfurt A “#MeToo scandal” led to the separation from a high-ranking…
Insolvency administrator Michael Jaffé gives shareholders hope
Munich, Düsseldorf There was silence in Room 134 of the Regional Court Munich I when Judge Helmut Krenek raised the floor on Thursday: “If this business did not exist and…
Insolvency administrator Michael Jaffé gives shareholders hope
Munich, Düsseldorf There was silence in Room 134 of the Regional Court Munich I when Judge Helmut Krenek raised the floor on Thursday: “If this business did not exist and…
“There is no doubt about the invalidity of the Wirecard balance sheet”
Munich, Düsseldorf There was silence in Room 134 of the Regional Court Munich I when Judge Helmut Krenek raised the floor on Thursday: “If this business did not exist and…
Tax claims against SEB Bank rise to 900 million euros
Dusseldorf First the investigators came, then the mail from the tax office: The major Swedish bank SEB and its German subsidiary DSK Hyp are under massive pressure because of questionable…
“There is no doubt about the invalidity of the Wirecard balance sheet”
Munich, Düsseldorf There was silence in Room 134 of the Regional Court Munich I when Judge Helmut Krenek raised the floor on Thursday: “If this business did not exist and…
Ex-Wirecard boss Markus Braun remains in prison
Markus Braun The former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun is not released even after a year and a half in custody. (Photo: Reuters) Düsseldorf, Munich The statements of his defense lawyers…
Raid on the German headquarters of the major Swedish bank
SEB logo Doing business at the expense of German taxpayers? (Photo: Bloomberg) Dusseldorf More than 80 police officers, tax investigators and public prosecutors have been searching the German headquarters of…
Munich Higher Regional Court gives investors hope for compensation
Wirecard Investors have suffered losses in the tens of billions. (Photo: AP) Munich The criticism of the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Munich was harsh. In a preliminary notice on Thursday,…
Diesel scandal: Continental employees attack Wolfgang Reitzle
Wolfgang Reitzle Reitzle has been chairman of the supervisory board of the automotive supplier Continental since 2009. (Photo: Reuters) Düsseldorf, Frankfurt In the end, everyone actually had to pay: Volkswagen,…
Wikimedia criticizes EY for criminal charges
EY in Düsseldorf The role of EY is also in focus in the Wirecard scandal. (Photo: dpa) Berlin, Düsseldorf The publication of the Wambach report by the Handelsblatt continues to…
3 German lawyers in the Swiss dock
Bank Sarasin logo in Geneva Two former bankers of the money house are on trial in Switzerland. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf Coming to terms with the Cum-Ex affair is the number…