In a few months, one of the most spectacular economic scandals in Germany is expected to be heard in court.
Almost two years after the Wirecard Group went bankrupt, the public prosecutor's office brought charges.
It can be assumed that the fourth criminal division of the Munich I Regional Court will also allow this.
The focus is on Markus Braun, the former CEO.
On 474 pages, the prosecutors list why they see Braun as the head of a criminal system, characterized "by esprit de corps and oaths of allegiance to the CEO".
They accuse him of commercial gang fraud.
Braun does not want to have known anything about the machinations of the Wirecard gang.
He sees himself as a victim of his former board colleague Jan Marsalek, who is considered the mastermind and is believed to have gone into hiding in Russia.
Marsalek next to Braun in the dock would certainly be enlightening.
It will hardly come to that.
Because cooperation in the context of legal assistance with Russian investigative authorities is ruled out for the foreseeable future.