Criminal case
Public prosecutor v. former Wirecard managers
- Authority
- Landgericht München I (Munich Regional Court I)
- Case number
- Not published
- Filed or opened
- Not published in the sources read
- Organization
- Wirecard AG
- Current stage
- Main hearing ongoing, evidence phase closing, verdict pending as of 8 October 2026
- Outcome
- Pending. Closing speeches and verdict outstanding.
Decisions and steps
- Court rejected defence request to suspend the trialS6.
Claims this case bears on
- Unresolved58Munich prosecutors accuse the former Wirecard chief executive of fraud that caused about EUR 3 billion in damage, charges he denies.Press report, 8 October 20262 records citedFraud
- Supported68A Financial Times report of 30 January 2019, as relayed by Bloomberg News, said an executive overseeing Wirecard's Asia-Pacific accounting allegedly ordered potentially fraudulent transactions.Press report, 30 January 20195 records citedAccounting
- Contradicted84Wirecard said on 22 April 2020 that the KPMG special review had found no evidence for the public allegations of balance sheet manipulation.Company statement, 22 April 20204 records citedAccounting
Sources
- S6Tier C Wirecard: Verteidigung blitzt mit Aussetzung abdpa (published by t-online). Press report. 8 October 2026.Reports the trial stage, the EUR 3 billion damage figure from prosecutors and the denial. It does not set out the indictment.Link working, checked 25 October 2026