After the publication of the critical Wambach report, the EY auditor has now brought criminal charges against unknown persons.

The public prosecutor's office in Munich I confirmed the receipt to the FAZ.

As an EY spokesman explained on Monday when asked by the FAZ, the criminal complaint is not aimed at the Handelsblatt, which recently posted the 168 pages on the Internet and reported extensively on it.

Instead, the focus would be on people who had apparently passed on the Wambach report, although it was classified as secret.

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In the opinion of EY, the disclosure constitutes a circumvention of the procedure provided for by the rule of law, violates the supreme court's authority to make decisions and creates facts on its own.

"Our criminal complaint expressly does not concern the question of whether the Wambach report may be published," says an EY statement.

The Federal Court of Justice will decide on this question shortly.

Rather, EY was disturbed by the violation of personal property rights of its employees and clients associated with the dissemination of the report, as well as the violation of the rule of law.

Dispute in Karlsruhe

There is a legal dispute about the unredeemed publication of the Wambach report. In August the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) decided against the publication. However, there is a complaint against this decision at the 3rd criminal senate of the BGH under the file number StB 34/21. A decision is expected in December. The focus of the conflict is the report by the auditor Achim Wambach, appointed by the investigative committee in the Wirecard affair as an investigator. He had taken a professional look at the documents with which EY had internally documented the examination of Wirecard's business figures.

The Wambach report lists many omissions by the auditors and is therefore explosive.

Wirecard victims, i.e. investors or creditors of the payment service provider, could use the content to support claims for damages against EY.