Karin Matussek

German prosecutors are preparing to bring the first criminal charges against staff who worked at Macquarie Group Ltd. over the Cum-Ex tax scandal.

Germany's top criminal court almost doubled the amounts a former CEO of a defunct bank and other ex-managers must repay.

Kai-Uwe Steck, who spilled the beans to German prosecutors and TV viewers about the Cum-Ex scandal, turned silent at a trial into his own alleged role.

Kai-Uwe Steck, one of the main collaborators with German prosecutors in their vast Cum-Ex probe, appeared in a Bonn court.

Former Warburg banker Christian Olearius has been found permanently unfit to stand trial, so the court dropped the case.

The scandal robbed billions of euros from government coffers and ensnared some of Wall Street's biggest banks.

An ex-Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner who helped top investment banks navigate the Cum-Ex trading strategy behind Europe's biggest tax scandal was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

A judge told the former attorney who advised top banks on the trading strategy at the center of Europe's biggest tax scandal to expect to be found guilty.

A German banker was sentenced to three years and three months for his role in the international tax trading scandal.

Hanno Berger was convicted in a tax scandal that robbed billions of euros from government coffers and ensnared some of Wall Street's biggest banks.