Balance of scandal: from fins at Wirecard hundreds of millions of euros?

The scandal at the financial services provider Wirecard is expanding, apparently. How to search the composite of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", NDR and WDR report

Balance of scandal: from fins at Wirecard hundreds of millions of euros?

The scandal at the financial services provider Wirecard is expanding, apparently. How to search the composite of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", NDR and WDR reports, there are indications of fraud in a large scale. Thus, about questionable loans to companies in Asia, and letter-box companies in Mauritius in the Indian ocean had gone hundreds of millions of dollars lost. This would encourage documentation of the economy audit company KPMG. Where the money is now, is unclear.

The Prosecutor's office of Munich I will now check whether you are receiving against the company from Aschheim fraud investigations, it said further. So far, it's the suspicion of the falsification and Manipulation of the market price of Wirecard AG. Advance against the former, Wirecard CEO Markus Braun and his colleagues, Jan Marsalek, which is believed to be in Asia submerged were gone. The prosecution had investigated this Wednesday for the second Time within a short period of time, the offices of the company. With twelve criminal tracker, which were supported by 33 police officers, and other IT professionals in the Munich police headquarters, as well as your colleagues.

According to the documents, the KPMG two companies from Asia to 2018've Wirecard the opportunity to submit to take loans over a amount of 250 million Euro in the claim, without asking for collateral. In the case of a further company from Asia that there will be 115 million Euro have been. In the coming year, no interest on the loans were paid, Wirecard extended the loans to a year. The boss of this company, according to the KPMG documents to have been a former Wirecard Manager.

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test the Case of a transaction with a shell company in Mauritius, it is also to inconsistencies given. Wirecard I bought this from a payment service provider from India for $ 315 million. The letter-box company to have the Indian company for 35 million euros acquired.

According to the news Agency"Reuters" investigate the Central Bank of Mauritius and the financial supervision, but now, if it had been a so-called"Round-Tripping", a bloating of the turnover by moving back and forth transfers between the individual group companies. Against the former management Board on a warrant. Wirecard is not expressed according to the media report the allegations.

The companies in the Munich suburb of Aschheim handles as a service provider for banks, credit card companies, retailers, non-cash payments, the subsidiary Wirecard Bank has a full banking license. On the basis of the balance sheet scandal, the expulsion from the Dax threatens the financial service providers but now.

Date Of Update: 01 July 2020, 21:19