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Berlin (dpa) - Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) made it clear in the Wirecard investigation committee that the ministry could not intervene in the fraud scandal for legal reasons.
The ministry in the committee said that the ministry did not have access to individual cases at the German Audit Office for Accounting (DPR) and did not exercise any supervision.
The department has no right of instruction and information.
One could criticize that with today's knowledge, but that was the construct.
The association DPR, organized under private law, controls balance sheets on behalf of the state.
In February 2019, the financial supervisory authority Bafin gave the audit office, also known as the balance sheet police, the information about inconsistencies in Wirecard's 2018 half-year balance sheet.
Thereupon the FREP initiated an examination.
In the meantime, the federal government has terminated the contract with the FREP for the end of 2021.
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The now insolvent Wirecard AG had admitted in June 2020 that the 1.9 billion euros listed in the balance sheet, which were supposedly in Asian bank accounts, could not be found.
The Munich public prosecutor's office is now assuming “commercial gang fraud” - since 2015. More than three billion euros could be lost.
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