The German regulator BaFin has announced that it will examine the allegations made by short-seller Fraser Perring about a report of his Delaware registered Viceroy. The German watchdog would have learned from Wirecard, says Raimund Roesler, who is responsible for banking supervision at BaFin. They would now probe the allegations raised by the report.
The Viceroy Report of the short-seller Fraser Perring, 46, about the listed German GRENKE AG has first personnel consequences. Company founder Wolfgang Grenke, 69, resigns from the company's supervisory board with immediate effect until the accusations have been cleared up. The company, founded in 1978, also announced a special audit by an independent auditing firm. After Wirecard, GRENKE is the second German target of the short seller from London. And it is again a powerfully executed but better-prepared attack.
The Viceroy report accuses the public GRENKE AG and its founder Wolfgang Grenke of running a malicious business model along with balance sheet manipulation and money laundering. The core of the accusations is actually rather identical to the accusations that Perring had also rightfully made against Wirecard. Perring is first and foremost a professional short seller and uses its analyses as a means to an end. And he does not deny that at all. In Vienna, the smoking gun in the GRENKE Case could have been discovered with CTP GmbH.
A few days ago Fraser Perring and his Viceroy exposed the alleged fraud surrounding Wolfgang Grenke's listed German company GRENKE AG. One of the central accusations is that the GRENKE AG is said to have continuously taken over companies that were previously founded by Wolfgang Grenke and/or associated persons and companies. These takeovers by the listed GRENKE AG would therefore have been transactions with affiliated and/or related companies and indivuduals.