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Department of Justice Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors have been named to conduct the preliminary investigation of the complaint filed against former Department of Transportation (DOTr) Assistant Secretary Mark Kristopher G. Tolentino and his co-respondents in connection with the $2.1
Published June 4, 2021, 5:17 PM
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Former Department of Transportation (DOTr) Assistant Secretary Mark Kristopher G. Tolentino, Austrian citizen Jan Marsalek and two other persons have been charged criminally before the Department of Justice (DOJ) in connection with the “billion-dollar scandal” of Wirecard AG, a firm based in Munich, Germany.
Assistant State Prosecutor Honey Rose E. Delgado, spokesperson of the DOJ’s Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG), confirmed on Friday, June 4, that the complaint was filed by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) last Monday, May 31.
Aside from Tolentino and Marsalek, who was a former Wirecard AG executive, also indicted were alleged bank employees Joey Dela Cruz Arellano and Judith Singayan Pe.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has filed criminal complaint against former Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek, a Filipino lawyer, and several others over the accounting scandal that led to the collapse of the German payments processor last year.