The Munich prosecutors’ workplace filed a collection of expenses towards former Wirecard AG Chief Government Officer Markus Braun, Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper reported.
Braun was accused of fraud, misappropriation of company belongings, accounting fraud and market manipulation, the newspaper mentioned. Braun’s lawyer Alfred Dierlamm didn’t instantly reply to an e mail searching for remark.
Prices had been additionally filed towards Oliver Bellenhaus, beforehand a managing director of a Dubai-based Wirecard unit, and Stephan von Erffa, the previous chief accountant and deputy chief monetary officer, the newspaper mentioned, citing folks with information of the matter it didn’t identify. The prosecutor’s workplace and attorneys of the defendants didn’t reply to requests for remark by Handelsblatt, the newspaper reported.
Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun in 2019
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Bellenhaus’ lawyer Nicolas Fruehsorger and von Erffa’s lawyer Sabine Stetter didn’t instantly reply to emailed requests for remark by Bloomberg Information.
Braun, who has been in custody since July 2020, was arrested after Wirecard acknowledged that 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) it had listed as belongings in all probability didn’t exist. The corporate had pulled monetary outcomes for 2019 and the primary quarter of 2020 and ultimately filed for chapter, prompting Germany’s largest company scandal. Bellenhaus has admitted his function within the Wirecard scheme and is cooperating absolutely with Munich prosecutors. Braun and von Erffa deny all expenses, based on Handelsblatt.