German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz arrives to testify before a parliament committee investigating Wirecard, in Berlin, Germany April 22, 2021. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi/Pool
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's finance minister denied any blame for the multi-billion-euro Wirecard fraud on Thursday, pointing the finger at the company and its auditors, EY, for waving the firm's accounts through for a decade.
Olaf Scholz joins a long list of politicians and officials who have denied responsibility for slipshod oversight and what critical lawmakers see as a pro-Wirecard bias that failed to avert Germany's biggest post-war fraud.
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