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They aren't, but there's definitely some present at the top. With enough money on the table, how could it be otherwise? Others have mentioned gas, but there's also BaFin/Wirecard: https://newrepublic.com/article/162084/weird-extremely-germa...


Almost forgot about that one... I wonder how they are going to contain the fallout from this to some low level BaFin employees and Wirecard's leadership. because it will be contained, nobody went to jail for things like the 2006 FIFA World Cup for example, or the various defense contracts in the last decade, or...


In the finance industry, BaFin is widely regarded as slow moving, out-of-date, and incompetant. Note that I did not use the term corrupt. Do you really think some BaFin staffers got bribes from Wirecard not to investigate? I doubt it.




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