New York Times: German Lawmakers Demand Answers Over Wirecard Collapse

New York Times: German Lawmakers Demand Answers Over Wirecard Collapse

"German lawmakers launched a parliamentary inquiry into the collapse of payments firm Wirecard on Tuesday in an effort to force the government to reveal more about a failure to avert the country's biggest post-war corporate fraud. (...)

"This was a fake company," said Fabio De Masi, a German lawmaker who played a key role in launching the inquiry that empowers parliamentarians to interrogate officials and demand information. "We are not getting the answers we need". (...)"