In 2019, BaFin banned short-selling in Wirecard shares for two months and filed criminal complaints against the Financial Times reporters investigating its accounts, the first time Germany’s market regulator had shielded one listed company that way

In February 2019, Germany's financial regulator BaFin banned short-selling of Wirecard shares for two months and filed criminal complaints against the Financial Times reporters investigating the company — the first single-firm short ban in the agency's history. Sixteen months later €1.9 billion was missing, the reporters were vindicated, and the COO had fled to Moscow. The post In 2019, BaFin banned short-selling in Wirecard shares for two months and filed criminal complaints against the Financi