WIRECARD: Trial against Markus Braun to begin in December

Trial against Markus Braun to begin on December 8, 2022

The crim­inal trial against the former CEO of the in­solv­ent pay­ment ser­vices pro­vider Wir­e­card, Markus Braun, will be­gin on Decem­ber 8, 2022 be­fore the 4th Grand Crim­inal Cham­ber of the Mu­nich Re­gional Court. The trial will be held in the courtroom of the Munich-​Stadelheim cor­rec­tional fa­cil­ity and will last 100 days un­til 2024.

In ad­di­tion to Markus Braun, other de­fend­ants in­clude Wirecard’s former chief fin­an­cial of­ficer, Stephan von Erffa, and Wirecard’s rep­res­ent­at­ive in Dubai, Oliver Bel­len­haus. They are ac­cused of ac­count­ing fraud, mar­ket ma­nip­u­la­tion, em­bez­zle­ment in sev­eral cases and pro­fes­sional gang fraud.

Information on proceedings against EY

If you would like to have your claims for dam­ages ex­amined free of charge and are in­ter­ested in tak­ing legal ac­tion, you can find all fur­ther in­form­a­tion on our ac­tion against EY here. Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaft­s­prü­fungs­gesell­schaft has audited the an­nual fin­an­cial state­ments of Wir­e­card AG up to and in­clud­ing 2018 without any ob­jec­tions. The law firm Schirp & Part­ner is EY’s strongest legal op­pon­ent, with over 1,300 law­suits cur­rently pending.