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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. Led to William Agee's ouster
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.
In February 2019, after a steep drop in Wirecard's share price, German authorities launched criminal probes into short-sellers and journalists who had accused the company of fraud, and banned ...
Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index scored Germany at 78 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). 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]
Germany's Social Democrat Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is facing calls from rival parties to account for the regulatory failures that led to the collapse of Wirecard after it emerged he knew of ...
From Cambridge Analytica to Deutsche Bank to WhatsApp, we catalog the biggest corporate scandals of the year.
Wirecard AG is an insolvent [4] German payment processor and financial services provider whose former CEO, COO, two board members, and other executives have been arrested or otherwise implicated in criminal proceedings. [5]
Dream boat scandal (1990–1991) Weapons scandal, Israeli inspection and acquisition of East German military hardware scandal, (1991) Amigo affair (de:Amigo-Affäre), bribe-scandal forcing the Bavarian prime minister Max Streibl to resign in 1993; Treuhand (mid-1990s) Drawer scandal (1993) Work villa scandal (1993) Plutonium affair (1995)