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'The money's gone': Wirecard collapses owing $5.8 billion

Jörn Poltz and Arno Schuetze

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Frankfurt / Munich | Wirecard collapsed on Thursday owing creditors almost $US4 billion ($5.8 billion) after disclosing a gaping hole in its books in Germany's worst accounting scandal.

The payments company filed for insolvency at a Munich court saying that with €1.3 billion ($2.1 billion) of loans due at the end of the month its survival as a going concern was "not assured".

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