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Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun, who resigned last week on allegations of fraud at Gerguy’s payment processing company, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of employing fake transfers to beyond due to sales and the company’s balance sheet to his record with investors.
Munich prosecutors arrested Braun after surrendering on Monday night, while three other compa executives are also under investigation.
Wirecard’s problems peaked when he admitted Monday that $2.1 billion in coins that, according to the apple, never existed.
Braun resigned Friday to the block he founded 21 years ago, saying the apple “was the victim of a serious fraud case.”
The company’s shares fell more than five0 on Friday and fell 4 times on Monday after the announcement of the missing billion.
Braun’s arrest is the crescendo of a long war between the Munich block and Gerguy’s economic regulator over a small army of short traffickers and the Financial Times.
Short sellers had surrounded the block for years, however, FT’s investigation into transfers and forged contracts at Wirecard’s workplace in Singapore led the government to analyze and their movements to fall. The FT has responded to sales and profit allegations at the apple outpost in Dubai and Ireland, with Wirecard retaliating with the threat of a trial, while Gerguy’s economic regulator has opened an investigation into FT newspapers involved in the story.
Braun founded Wirecard, once a star of the startup scene in Gerguyy, in 1nineninenine and has grown up around the world, employing the most virtuous friend of 6,000 people. Wirecard’s expansion has brought him to the exclusive club of 30 Gerguy primary corporations, followed by the DAX index in 2018. The search for missing coins came after EY auditors reported a giant gap in the company’s balance sheet last week, representing about a quarter of Wirecard’s assets and delaying the signing of the company’s 201 accounts. But the search failed after two Filipino banks accused of having coins denied having Wirecard as a customer, adding that billions never entered the country’s economic system, officials said Sunday. Wirecard was also accused of using the names of the banks to hide the company’s own contacts.
The company’s valuation went from more than $28 billion in two years to more than $3 billion last week.
Braun is scheduled to hold an audience on Tuesday. Meanwhile, prosecutors reportedly rumoured an arrest warrant against former board member Jan Marsalek, who was also fired as the official leader of the company. Marsalek the administrator who oversaw the operations, adding in Southeast Asia.
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