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        <title><![CDATA[Ex-Wirecard CEO Markus Braun arrested amid $2.1 billion accounting scandal]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>German authorities arrested former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun days after he left the payments company amid a $2.1 billion accounting scandal.</p><p>Munich prosecutors accused Braun of using bogus income from transactions with &#8220;third-party acquirers&#8221; to inflate Wirecard&#8217;s assets and sales volume and make it more attractive to investors. Braun turned himself in Monday evening and will appear Tuesday before a judge who will decide whether to keep him detained, according to a translated <strong>statement</strong> from the prosecutor&#8217;s office.</p><p>Braun&#8217;s arrest came after Wirecard revealed 1.9 billion euros that was missing from its accounts <strong>likely never existed to begin with</strong>. The company&#8217;s auditor refused to sign off on its accounts for 2019 because it couldn&#8217;t confirm the money&#8217;s existence.</p><p>Prosecutors said Braun, who resigned on Friday, may have committed his alleged offenses &#8220;in cooperation with other perpetrators,&#8221; adding that their investigation is only a few days old. Prosecutors may also issue an arrest warrant for ex-chief operating officer Jan Marsalek, whom Wirecard fired on Monday, sources familiar with the matter <strong>told Reuters</strong>.</p><p>Wirecard did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.</p><p>The scandal has sparked a massive reversal of fortune for Wirecard, a 21-year-old financial tech company once beloved by investors. The firm&#8217;s share price has plunged more than 80 percent since it acknowledged the missing money last week.</p><p>Wirecard has been dogged by <strong>Financial Times reports</strong> on allegations of accounting fraud in the company&#8217;s third-party acquiring business, which reportedly involves handling payments for merchants. The newspaper published documents last year that it said indicated &#8220;a concerted effort to fraudulently inflate sales and profits&#8221; at Wirecard businesses abroad.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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