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Berlin (dpa) - The SPD politicians in the Wirecard committee have accused the Union of allowing the auditors' lobby to influence them.
Economics minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) has blocked reforms in the auditor supervision Apas, now the union is resisting strict liability rules for auditors, criticized the SPD member Cansel Kiziltepe on Tuesday.
"The lobby is at work at full speed and has many open doors with our coalition partner."
According to Kiziltepe, incorrectly audited balance sheets have been the “core of the Wirecard cause” for years. The former DAX group had admitted a balance sheet hole of 1.9 billion euros last summer, the prosecutor assumes that the annual financial statements have been wrong at least since 2015. However, EY auditors had put their stamp on these accounts for years.
The investigation committee in the Bundestag is supposed to clarify, among other things, whether Wirecard, as an up-and-coming German fintech, was handled with kid gloves by politicians and authorities.
On Tuesday, Altmaier was supposed to testify as his ministry is responsible for the audit supervision Apas.
On Thursday, Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) was invited as a witness, whose Ministry of Finance oversees the financial supervision Bafin.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) will testify on Friday.
She campaigned for Wirecard during a trip to China after the former Economics Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU) had lobbied her.
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