Here’s an important summary of the key events and statements from the witnesses over the past three weeks in the #Wirecard trial in Munich before it resumes next week in early March 2025.

SoKo witness Rittel stated on February 20, 2025, that one of the EY employees interviewed reported that a #Wirecard employee from the Treasury department had been leaking information to the Financial Times (FT) since 2019.

Additionally, Rittel mentioned that a so-called ‘green list’ was maintained by the SoKo in coordination with the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office, primarily including companies from Europe. This list served as a filter for investigating companies and their account transactions related to Wirecard.

Companies from Asia were largely excluded due to this green list, and their account transactions were rarely examined.

A money laundering report from the FIU to the KK72 in Munich and the Public Prosecutor’s Office, dated July 15, 2020 (the same day Bellenhaus was questioned by the Public Prosecutor’s Office), regarding Bellenhaus’s Levantine Foundation in Liechtenstein, was not available to Rittel on that day - he reviewed it ‘later.’

The interrogation of Bellenhaus on July 15, 2020, was only partially recorded. Rittel was unaware of the exact timing of when Bellenhaus handed over his mobile phones and laptops.

When asked about a possible motive for allegedly fabricating the entire TPA business, the SoKo witness deemed it ‘not important.’

Here are the details of the questioning of #Wirecard SoKo officer Tobias Rittel on February 20, 2025.

https://www.sun24.press/en/wirecard-testimony-live-reports-directly-from-the-courtroom-criminal-police-force-witness.html

#Wirecard witness Bäumler-Hösl testified the following week that her office was located in a building on Schleißheimer Strasse in Munich, about a 20-minute walk from the central building of the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office.

The Bavarian Supreme Regional Court (BayObLG) is also housed there (more on this later). On the first day of her testimony, Prosecutor Bäumler-Hösl stated that Bellenhaus had previously been involved in several money laundering cases.

On the second day of the #Wirecard testimony, Bäumler-Hösl reported that the Senior Public Prosecutor Bühring, who was responsible for the arrest warrants issued on July 22, 2020, was on summer vacation and thus absent during Bellenhaus’s questioning on July 15, 2020. He reportedly returned to the office on July 20, 2020.

At that time, the transcripts of the extensive questioning of Oliver Bellenhaus were not yet complete. Nevertheless, Bühring signed the arrest warrants for Ley, von Erffa, and Dr. Braun on the same day or July 21, 2020 - executed early on July 22, 2020 - almost exclusively based on Bellenhaus’s statements to Munich prosecutors on July 15, 2020.

Neither pay stubs nor IT devices were collected from Bellenhaus during his arrest or before his questioning in July 2020.

Here are the details of the second day of the #Wirecard testimony on February 27, 2025, by Senior Public Prosecutor Hildegard Bäumler-Hösl:

https://www.sun24.press/en/wirecard-testimony-live-reports-directly-from-the-courtroom-key-prosecutor-2.html

On February 27, 2025, during the second day of Bäumler-Hösl's #Wirecard testimony, the court read out judgments dropping a few charges from the Public Prosecutor's Office regarding Wirecard credit extensions to oCap after over two years of trial.

These charges involved Bellenhaus, von Erffa, and Dr. Braun.

Immediately after the #Wirecard judgment announcements from February 27, 2025, the defense for Dr. Braun and von Erffa filed motions to remove all judges, associate judges, and alternate judges from the criminal proceedings, citing significant bias due to ignored evidence requests, an undemocratic legal process, and massive manipulation of public perception, among other.

A day after the #Wirecard court's judgments on dropped charges and motions to remove all judges in the criminal proceedings by Dr. Braun and von Erffa, and during Senior Public Prosecutor Bäumler-Hösl's second day of testimony, the in 5/ aforementioned Bavarian Supreme Regional Court (BayObLG) announced a decision on the Capital Investor Model Proceedings (KapMUG) on February 28, 2025.

https://www.justiz.bayern.de/gerichte-und-behoerden/bayerisches-oberstes-landesgericht/presse/2025/1.php

The BayObLG, located in the exact same building as Senior Public Prosecutor Bäumler-Hösl’s office at the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office in 2020, announced on February 28, 2025, after three (3 !!!) years of #Wirecard KapMUG proceedings, that the objectives of the "preliminary ruling" were largely inadmissible, invalidating most of the framework without determining compensation for defrauded investors in their dispute with EY.

On March 7, 2025, German radio news, like Deutschlandfunk, overlooked bias motions filed against all Wirecard judges, focusing only on a London court ruling about an alleged Bulgarian spy ring linked to #Wirecard's fugitive Jan Marsalek.

News of the London trial involving Bulgarian spies spying on U.S. military facilities broke once again first in the Financial Times.

#Wirecard’s long-standing COO, Jan Marsalek, has not been charged or convicted in that trial, however.

https://www.ft.com/content/a3be7f26-f452-4585-9389-c6dc5c4b4978