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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months by terminalcommand on Sunday December 11, 2022 @04:30AM (#33941654)
Don't forget about the Wirecard scandal as well.
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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months by hackandthink on Sunday December 11, 2022 @11:09AM (#33944369)
WireCard was really bad.

Journalists (FT) who investigated and reported on the Wirecard scam were prosecuted.

BaFin (Financial Supervisory Authority) supported WireCard (prohibiting short selling).

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirecard#Berichterstattung_der...

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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months by formerly_proven on Sunday December 11, 2022 @05:17AM (#33941911)
Actually that dude was from Austria.
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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months by ChuckNorris89 on Sunday December 11, 2022 @08:24AM (#33942935)
>Actually that dude was from Austria.

This is not the first time some Austrian dude causes trouble in Germany :)

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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months by terminalcommand on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:25AM (#33942278)
Didn't he operate in Germany? The country that allowed the fraud was Germany.
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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months by konha on Sunday December 11, 2022 @07:52AM (#33942730)
Exactly. The scandal wasn’t so much that a company defrauded investors (happens) but that regulators didn’t catch on to it and actively interfered with attempts to uncover it.
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