Frankfurt — The Financial Times (FT) has hired a law firm to review its investigations into German payments company Wirecard, which has sued the newspaper over a series of reports alleging accounting irregularities.
Editor Lionel Barber called in London-based law firm RPC, after the Handelsblatt daily reported at the weekend that Wirecard had given evidence to German prosecutors alleging collusion between short sellers and employees of the FT...
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