Christopher Reinhard Bauer died from ‘natural causes’ on July 27 at a hospital in the capital Manila and was later cremated, Menardo Guevarra told AFP, adding that he was the same person summoned by the NBI in connection with the Wirecard fraud investigation. — Reuters pic
“He was the same person summoned by the NBI in connection with the Wirecard fraud investigation,” he said, after the government obtained official documents that confirmed earlier reports of Bauer’s death. Bauer, his wife and their company were under investigation for potentially flouting the Philippines’ anti-money laundering law, the country’s central bank governor Benjamin Diokno previously told AFP.has described him as a former Wirecard Asia Pacific executive.
Philippine investigators also announced today they had filed charges against two immigration officers who allegedly falsified records to show ex-Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek had briefly visited the country after he was sacked from the collapsed company.