Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun was arrested for a 2nd time in relation to the company's $2 billion accounting scandal

Reuters

• Wirecard's former chief executive Markus Braun has been rearrested in Munich as German prosecutors dug deeper into allegations of fraud at the fintech firm.
• Two other executives — revealed by the Financial Times as Wirecard's former finance boss, Burkhard Ley, and Stephan von Erffa, ex-head of accounting — were also arrested.
• Former chief operating officer, Jan Marsalek, has likely escaped to Russia with the "clear help of Russian intelligence," two officials told Business Insider. 
• Wirecard filed for insolvency a month ago soon after revealing an amount of 1.9 billion euros ($2 billion) was missing from its balance sheet, and likely never existed.
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Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun has been arrested for the second time as German prosecutors probed further into a fraud investigation surrounding the company's reputedly inflated balance sheet.

Two other executives — named by the Financial Times as Wirecard's former finance boss, Burkhard Ley, and Stephan von Erffa, ex-head of accounting — were also arrested.

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