Shall “shed light on Wirecard's dark and ominous channels to secret services and politics”.
The German parliamentary committee of inquiry into the Wirecard accounting scandal has agreed on a special investigator. The 72-year-old Wolfgang Wieland, who sat for the Greens in the German Bundestag from 2005 to 2013, should take over the post, the Greens announced on Wednesday. All parliamentary groups in the Bundestag have agreed on this.
“He can manage to shed light on Wirecard's dark and ominous channels to secret services and politics,” said Green finance politician Danyal Bayaz. “The question arises as to whether those responsible at Wirecard have harmed the security interests of the Federal Republic of Germany.” Above all, the ex-Wirecard board member Jan Marsalek, an Austrian who was on the run, is said to have had contacts with secret services.
