Wirecard inquiry: Germany's political and financial elite exposed 12 minutes to read By: Guy Chazan and Olaf Storbeck It was an innocuous question, posed shortly before midnight some nine hours into an exhausting parliamentary hearing into the Wirecard scandal. "Did you ever actually own Wirecard shares?" Cansel Kiziltepe, the Social Democrat MP, asked Ralf Bose, head of Germany's auditor watchdog Apas. His answer caused a political earthquake and brought an abrupt end to his more than 30-year career. A former partner at KPMG, Bose ran a government agency that is normally pr...