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Wirecard AG

  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Three former Wirecard executives found personally liable for €140mn

    Munich court rules Markus Braun and others violated duties over loans to suspicious businesses

    From left, Susanne Steidl, Markus Braun and Alexander von Knoop
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Two more former Wirecard executives charged in sprawling criminal investigation

    Ex-finance chief and former chief product officer accused of having failed to fulfil legal obligations to now-collapsed group

    Wirecard’s former chief financial officer Alexander von Knoop and its former chief product officer Susanne Steidl face prison terms of up to 15 years if they are found guilty on all counts
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    EY
    Former EY Germany boss to appeal against €300,000 fine for Wirecard audits

    Hubert Barth and four other current and former EY employees punished by German audit watchdog

    The logo of multinational assurance services giant Ernst & Young (EY) hangs on the facade of a building in Berlin
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    Wirecard’s former CFO claims limited dealings with business after 2017

    Burkhard Ley says he had only a minor role after he retired, in his first public remarks since the group collapsed 4 years ago

    Burkhard Ley, former Wirecard CFO leaving the high court
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Top lawyer of ex-Wirecard boss walks away after money runs out

    Markus Braun under mounting pressure as trial of Germany’s largest corporate fraud continues

    Markus Braun, pictured in 2019.
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    EY
    EY’s Wirecard audits marred by ‘repeated grave’ violations, says watchdog

    Big Four firm botched audit work and quality control over several years, Apas concludes in multiyear investigation

    Wirecard signage
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    EY
    German watchdog finds EY’s Wirecard audits grossly negligent

    Apas stops short of establishing criminal intent in Big Four firm’s conduct

    The Wirecard logo
  • Monday, 8 April, 2024
    Wirecard shareholders sue EY over alleged asset stripping in Germany

    Lawyers for former investors in collapsed German payments group claim Big Four firm’s reorganisation made it harder to enforce claims

    EY logo on an office in Hoboken, New Jersey, US
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    Jan Marsalek
    Wirecard fugitive helped run Russian spy operations across Europe

    Jan Marsalek used agents in Vienna to plot break-ins and assassinations by Russian hit squads, prosecutors claim

    Montage of Russian flag, Wirecard logo and a picture of Jan Marsalek
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    EY
    EY drops appeal against German sanctions over Wirecard audits

    Big Four firm seeks to conclude years-long crisis triggered by work for defunct payments firm

    EY logo
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Jan Marsalek
    Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek recruited by Russian intelligence in 2014, says report

    Executive at fraudulent German financial services company led a double life

    A wanted poster in Germany for Jan Marsalek
  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
    InterviewWhistleblowing
    Wirecard whistleblower slams new German law as too weak

    Pav Gill says fines are ‘slap on the wrist’ as he prepares platform to help companies with compliance

    Pav Gill
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Wirecard trial’s chief prosecution witness released from jail

    Munich court orders release of Oliver Bellenhaus in blow to payment group’s former chief Markus Braun

    Oliver Bellenhaus in a courtroom at the District Court in Munich, Germany in December 2022
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    The Japanese cosmetics retailer who became a surprise witness at the Wirecard trial

    Yoshio Tomiie was a director of a Singapore-based company allegedly at the heart of the payment group’s fraud

    Wirecard headquarters in Munich, Germany
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    Inside BusinessOlaf Storbeck
    Germany still needs to learn from Wirecard on whistleblowers

    Legal protection for those who call out wrongdoing has improved but more needs to be done

    Wirecard logo
  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    Wirecard’s former chief financial officer charged with fraud

    Burkhard Ley accused by Munich prosecutors more than three years after failure of payments company

    Wirecard’s logo on the side of the company’s headquarters in Aschheim, near Munich, in 2020
  • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
    Wirecard hacker sentenced to 80 months in prison

    US prosecutors say Aviram Azari orchestrated and facilitated ‘international hacking-for-hire spearphishing campaign’

    The headquarters of the now insolvent Wirecard in Munich
  • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
    News in-depth
    Wirecard’s byzantine fraud grips courts in Munich and Singapore

    A complex international set-up and an absconded top executive have made going tough for investigators

    From left: Markus Braun, Jan Marsalek and James Henry O’Sullivan
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    Wirecard’s auditor EY was too gullible, Singapore suspect claims

    Asian trustee of German payments firm admits fabricating documents

    Singaporean Shan Rajaratnam arriving at the State Courts for a Wirecard hearing
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    Jan Marsalek claims third-party business survived Wirecard collapse

    Former second-in-command turned fugitive says outsourced operations continue to be in operation

    Police photographs of former Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    Jan Marsalek sends unsolicited letter to judges in Wirecard trial

    German lawyer of fugitive former second-in-command submitted his client’s comments in court hearing in Munich

    The logo of German payments provider Wirecard
  • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
    Singapore fines financial institutions over Wirecard-related breaches

    DBS, OCBC, Citibank and Swiss Life punished for inadequate controls

    Exterior view of the Wirecard building
  • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
    Singapore hands down first Wirecard criminal convictions

    Two former executives given jail sentences related to collapse of once high-flying German payments group

    The logo of Wirecard pictured at its headquarters in Aschheim, near Munich, Germany
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    Markus Braun told Wirecard’s top lawyer that compliance was ‘crap’, court hears

    Collapsed German payments company retrospectively created supervisory board minutes, says group’s former legal chief

    Markus Braun
  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Inside BusinessOlaf Storbeck
    The paradoxical lessons from EY’s punishment over Wirecard

    Regulatory reform of the audit industry is still unfinished business

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