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EY has taken legal action after the publication of a classified report on the work of its auditors in the Wirecard case.
The »Süddeutsche Zeitung« (»SZ«) and the »Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung« (»FAZ«) report that there was a complaint against unknown persons.
The »Handelsblatt« published the 168 pages of the confidential document online.
It accuses EY of extensive failures in examining the financial service provider.
The decision to put the documents online was justified in the public interest.
According to the »FAZ«, EY does not want to mess with the journalists responsible for the criminal complaint, but with the sources that passed on the so-called Wambach report - named after the economist and head of the Monopoly Commission Marin Wambach.
Publication came before the complaint before the BGH
"Our criminal complaint expressly does not concern the question of whether the Wambach report may be published," is quoted in the "FAZ" report from a statement.
The report had been classified as secret by the secret service of the Bundestag.
The Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the case had commissioned him and would have liked to publish it.
EY had repeatedly checked Wirecard in the past and found no abnormalities.
In 2020, the former Dax group Wirecard finally slipped into bankruptcy after admitting air bookings of 1.9 billion euros - according to investigations by the public prosecutor's office, it could total more than three billion euros.
The Munich public prosecutor's office is investigating, among other things, falsification of accounts, fraud, market manipulation and money laundering.
EY has been fighting for its reputation since then - and, according to the reports, tried to prevent it from being published before the Federal Court of Justice.
The auditing firm was also right there, according to the »Süddeutsche«, but there is still a complaint from the investigative committee that has not yet been decided in Karlsruhe.
However, once it has been published by the »Handelsblatt«, it should also become obsolete.
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