Ex-Wirecard CEO Markus Braun goes on trial in Munich this week for his role in the collapse of the once celebrated payments firm, brought down by the biggest accounting fraud scandal in German ...

Digital payments firm Wirecard collapsed in 2020 after admitting that 1.9 billion euros ($2.0 billion) missing from its accounts didn’t actually exist – Copyright ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the courtroom during the Wirecard trial. A third defendant in Germany's sprawling fraud trial involving disgraced ...

Wirecard crown witness Oliver Bellenhaus stands in the underground courtroom of Stadelhei prison. The key prosecution witness in Germany's sprawling fraud trial of disgraced payments group Wirecard ...

The former chief operating officer of the defunct German fintech giant Wirecard, who fled to Russia in 2020 to evade possible prosecution on embezzlement and fraud charges, spied for Moscow for years, ...

Wirecard's ex-COO Marsalek was likely a Russian agent for nearly a decade, according to Western intelligence officials. He reportedly used Wirecard to siphon out money to Russian spy agencies. See the ...

KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) -A German high court rejected a claim from shareholders in defunct payments company Wirecard who were seeking a bigger share of the firm's remaining assets. The company ...

MUNICH (Reuters) - The key prosecution witness in Germany's biggest post-war fraud trial admitted guilt on Monday in a scam that led to Wirecard's collapse but said the company was a "swindle" from ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Wirecard’s <WDIG.DE> administrator said on Tuesday that more than 100 investors have expressed interest in buying the collapsed German payments firm’s core business and holdings.

The famous ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles once said he'd rather "fail in honor rather than succeed by fraud." Sophocles ...