This is the judge who judges Braun and the Wirecard managers

Judge Markus Foedisch

The 48-year-old has only been the presiding judge at the district court since 2020.

(Photo: Reuters)

Dusseldorf In March 2021, judge Markus Födisch sent a man to prison for four and a half years who had applied for emergency corona aid more than 90 times without justification. The perpetrator, who had been convicted several times, wanted to swindle more than 2.5 million euros. The case was the one that aroused the most public interest and made some headlines in the 48-year-old’s judicial career to date.

Compared to what awaits the presiding judge of the fourth criminal chamber at the Munich I district court in the coming months and possibly years, this is of course hardly worth mentioning.

Födisch and his chamber are to judge in the first criminal trial in what is probably the most spectacular economic scandal in the republic: the multi-billion dollar fraud that tore the payment service provider Wirecard into bankruptcy. It was the first and so far only bankruptcy of a Dax group. Banks lost 3.1 billion euros, investors 24 billion.

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