<story><title>Wirecard hired actors to fool auditors</title><url>https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/wirecard-jan-marsalek-soll-wirtschaftspruefer-ey-mit-schauspielern-getaeuscht-haben-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000172590382</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s my little Wirecard story: Back in the day when Camarades.com&amp;#x2F;ww.com was doing well we were through an intermediary approached by a German investor, one Paul Bauer-Schlichtegroll (I&amp;#x27;ll never forget that name), an - at that moment - successful German businessman, who was importing Vans sports shoes into Europe.&lt;p&gt;He became a 5% investor in our company through an entity called Max Madhouse GMBH with an option to buy a much larger share. The day after the deal was signed he turned around and tried to screw us - the founders - out of our own company through a minority shareholder lawsuit.&lt;p&gt;Eventually we got rid of him, but this cost us a lot of time, money and momentum. Two years later Bauer was one of the founding members of what eventually became Wirecard.&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#x27;ve always seen Wirecard as a bunch of crooks.&lt;p&gt;At the same time I have some sympathy for the BaFin people, there are way too few of them and the opposition was very well versed in showing one face whilst actually being something completely different, the length to which these characters would go to show a good face was beyond anything that I would have normally imagined. I&amp;#x27;m still a touch paranoid because of it, and I&amp;#x27;m sure the same goes for the rest of the former Camarades.com&amp;#x2F;ww.com team.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know what happened to him, he seems to have disappeared as well, but I do know that anything that he&amp;#x27;s ever touched was rotten at some level.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wirecard hired actors to fool auditors</title><url>https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/wirecard-jan-marsalek-soll-wirtschaftspruefer-ey-mit-schauspielern-getaeuscht-haben-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000172590382</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tepix</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the headhunter bounty for former Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek? He&amp;#x27;s still at large: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.finextra.com&amp;#x2F;newsarticle&amp;#x2F;36396&amp;#x2F;marsalek-joins-interpols-most-wanted-ranks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.finextra.com&amp;#x2F;newsarticle&amp;#x2F;36396&amp;#x2F;marsalek-joins-in...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>