German lawmakers on Wednesday questioned Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and Economy Minister Peter Altmaier over their failure to detect and prevent the Wirecard [WDIG.DE] accounting scandal, one of the biggest in post-war history.
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz attends the German parliament's financial committee to report about the Wirecard case in Berlin, Germany, July 29, 2020. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt
Prosecutors have arrested former Wirecard Chief Executive Markus Braun and two other former executives on suspicion of orchestrating a years-long criminal racket to inflate revenue and balances to hide losses dating back at least to 2015. Scholz last week rushed out a reform agenda that would give financial watchdog BaFin greater investigative and enforcement powers, broaden its mandate to cover non-banking financial institutions, and toughen penalties against lax auditors.
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