id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8662 Wirecard scandal - Wikipedia .html text/html 3358 455 62 On 25 June 2020, Wirecard filed for insolvency after revelations that €1.9 billion was "missing",[1][2] and the termination and arrest of its CEO Markus Braun.[3] Questions are raised with regards to the regulatory failure on the part of Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Germany's top financial watchdog, and possible malpractice of its long time auditor Ernst & Young. Wirecard is suspected to have engaged in a series of fraudulent accounting activities to inflate its profit.[9] Despite allegations lodged against the company, BaFin ultimately took little action against the company before its eventual collapse, while it constantly joined in the company's attack against critics by associating them with short sellers.[10] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8662.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8662.txt