Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard

Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by DangerousPie on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:39AM (#23870984)

I don’t see how you could call this corruption, he didn’t benefit from someone else getting rich. Unless there is any evidence that he sold his shares at an inflated price with the understanding that he would pay back the favour while in office or something like that, which I don’t think there is.

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by ChuckNorris89 on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:56AM (#23871200)

It doesn't matter who benefits from this deal, what matters is the country got shit infrastructure against the advice of his experts and the taxpayers paid for it.

Since he signed off on this, it's on him to be investigated.

That's what corruption is.

Of course, if you want, you can cover it up in red tape and make it look like incompetence.

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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by DangerousPie on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:10AM (#23871350)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption

First sentence:

> Corruption is a form of dishonesty or criminal offense undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one's private gain

That's what corruption is.

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