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Munich (dpa) - The Munich I public prosecutor's office is investigating the auditing company EY because of its role in the Wirecard scandal.
This was preceded by a complaint by the Apas auditors.
A spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office said on Friday that they have "now been thoroughly examined.
"Since it describes specific accused persons and criminal provisions, we have, as the file order stipulates, entered an investigation against those named."
The "Handelsblatt" had previously reported.
The initiation of the preliminary investigation is the normal procedure.
The public prosecutor added: "We continue to conduct our investigations into the entire Wirecard complex against numerous suspects, whom we do not want to disclose for tactical reasons."
The Apas had already called on the public prosecutor's office in November.
At the time, an EY spokesman said that they saw "no evidence of criminal misconduct by EY auditors in the Wirecard case."
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The FDP obman in the Wirecard investigation committee of the Bundestag, Florian Toncar, said: “So far everything has indicated that serious mistakes were made in the final examination.
The fact that these could even be relevant to criminal law gives the case a whole new dimension. "