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Stephan Radomsky and Nils Wischmeyer, Munich
Long before the main actors appear, the audience is there, the reporters are ready and the cameras are ready. So numerous that the start of the Wirecard trial was delayed because not everyone made it through the single security checkpoint into the courtroom quickly enough. Almost an hour late, however, the man who everyone has been expecting appears: Markus Braun, once the boss, focal point and major shareholder of the payment service provider Wirecard – and now the main accused in one of the largest white-collar crimes that have ever existed in German history.