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Berlin (dpa) - The former CFO of the scandal company Wirecard has denied any involvement in the alleged fraud of billions.
In the Bundestag committee of inquiry, he said on Thursday that the controversial trust accounts were not in his area of responsibility.
Rather, the Wirecard manager Jan Marsalek, who has since gone into hiding, was responsible.
"At no time have I been informed, hinted or otherwise known about the criminal machinations of other people in Wirecard AG that are currently in question," emphasized the CFO.
"I had no knowledge of it."
He was completely surprised by the suspicion that the money in the trust accounts might not even exist.
Marsalek always confirmed the values on these accounts to him.
The manager also emphasized that he had not benefited from the alleged fraud and had never received non-contractual benefits or loans from Wirecard.
Rather, his personal life and career prospects were "shaken and permanently destroyed".
The now insolvent Dax group Wirecard is said to have shown fictitious profits for years.
Trust accounts with sums of billions are said not to have existed at all.
In the summer, the up-and-coming fintech had granted air bookings of 1.9 billion euros - according to investigations by the public prosecutor's office, it could even go up to more than three billion.
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