Wirecard: El regulador alemán que persiguió a los periodistas en vez del fraude

Twelve names, two journalists, a criminal complaint in Munich: this was the German financial regulator's reaction to the first reports about Wirecard's accounting fraud. Before the company declared insolvency with a €1.9 billion shortfall, BaFin banned short selling of its shares and pursued criminal charges against the Financial Times reporters who had documented the irregularities. Fourteen months later, the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office itself closed the case, acknowledging that the reports had been, in its words, fundamentally correct. Note on the presentation: This video contains scenes digitally reconstructed using AI, intended solely for educational and illustrative purposes. The images shown are not original historical recordings. #wirecard #bafin #corporatefraud #financialtimes #germany #investigativejournalism #financialscandal #financialregulator #fraud #daxindex #businesscollapse #freedomofthepress 📚 SOURCES CONSULTED & BIBLIOGRAPHY: 🏛️ 1. BaFin — Statement on the ban on short selling of Wirecard shares (February 18, 2019). 🏛️ 2. Munich Public Prosecutor's Office (Staatsanwaltschaft München) — Statement closing the investigation against FT journalists (September 3, 2020). 🔬 3. Bloomberg / NDTV — "Wirecard Regulator Pursued Critics After a Probe Found Nothing". 🔬 4. Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) — Interview with Dan McCrum and Stefania Palma about the pressure they faced. 🔬 5. SAFE Policy White Paper — Implications of oversight of the Wirecard case for BaFin. 🔬 6. Academic paper "The Wirecard scandal and the role of BaFin". 🗞️ 7. Financial Times — Series of reports on Wirecard (January 30, 2019, and subsequent coverage by McCrum/Palma). 🗞️ 8. Reuters — Coverage of the short-selling ban and the criminal complaint (2019). 🗞️ 9. DW (Deutsche Welle) — Coverage of the complaint, with explicit mention of the FT journalists. 🗞️ 10. Der Spiegel — Coverage of the complaint and BaFin's wavering stance. 🗞️ 11. Reuters / Financial Times — Closure of the case and acknowledgment of the accuracy of the reporting (September 2020). 📖 12. Retrospective coverage of the Wirecard scandal (collapse, insolvency, arrest of Markus Braun).