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When ranked by score, Germany ranked 9th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [1] For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the average score was 43, and the worst score was 11 (ranked 180). [ 2 ]
Wirecard's headquarters, raided on 1 July 2020 by German authorities [1]. The Wirecard scandal (German: Wirecard-Skandal) was a series of corrupt business practices and fraudulent financial reporting that led to the insolvency of Wirecard, a payment processor and financial services provider, headquartered in Munich, Germany.
Lernout & Hauspie accounting fraud; Lockheed bribery scandal in Germany, Japan, and Netherlands; Livedoor scandal; Luxembourg Leaks. Luxembourg under Jean-Claude Juncker's premiership had turned into a major European centre of corporate tax avoidance. [34] Marsh McLennan; Merck Medicaid fraud investigation [10] Mirant [10] Morrison-Knudsen scandal.
Former Wirecard executives go on trial on Thursday, two years after the collapse of the payments company that produced Germany's biggest post-war fraud scandal and sent shockwaves through the ...
Spain's Santander is the latest bank to be caught up in Germany's biggest post-war fraud investigation involving a share-trading scheme that the authorities say cost taxpayers billions of euros.
The German government is following up on media reports that coronavirus test centers across the country have overbilled authorities for the number of tests taken. In recent weeks, thousands of ...
The scam was aided by a network of co-conspirators that included family, friends and employees of the firm, but ultimately it was Schmider and Kleiser who paid the largest price for their crimes; they were both arrested in February 2000 on suspicion of fraud and tax evasion, four years after the authorities were allegedly first tipped off about the fraudulent business practices. [4]
Countries affected by the fraud. The CumEx-Files is an investigation by a number of European news media outlets into a tax fraud scheme discovered by them in 2017. [1] A network of banks, stock traders, and lawyers had obtained billions from European treasuries through suspected fraud and speculation involving dividend taxes.