Karin Matussek

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  • AT SEA, PORTUGUESE – FEBRUARY 18: (—EDITORIAL USE ONLY – MANDATORY CREDIT – “KREMLIN PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) The Felicity Ace ship carrying luxury cars, is seen as it is adrift in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean after it caught fire, near Portuguese on February 18, 2022. After a fire broke out in the cargo hold, it spread and all 22 crew members were rescued. The crew was safely picked up by the Portuguese Navy with a helicopter. (Photo by Portuguese Naval Forces / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Finance

    Volkswagen hit with 2 lawsuits claiming that a Porsche EV battery triggered the massive 2022 fire that sank a cargo ship with thousands of cars on board

    By Karin Matussek and Bloomberg
  • BERLIN, GERMANY – MARCH 10: A police wanted poster of former Wirecard chief operating officer Jan Marsalek is seen on a folder of Fabio de Masi (Die Linke) of the Bundestag commission investigating the Wirecard scandal following a press conference by de Masi and other commission members on March 10, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Wirecard, a German digital payments processor that was very active in Asia, declared bankruptcy last year following revelations of deceptive accounting to the tune of EUR 2 billion. Former Wirecard chief operating officer Jan Marsalek is a fugitive also being investigated for possible ties to Russian intelligence services. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

    Executive who vanished after his company’s spectacular collapse three years ago to avoid arrest signals he’s still alive

    By Karin Matussek and Bloomberg
  • EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND – NOVEMBER 21: A British Airways plane on its final approach into Edinburgh airport, as the Scottish Government earlier faced criticism around guidance on travel to airports after making illegal all non-essential travel to or from local authority areas in Protection Levels Three or Four, in an effort to suppress Covid-19 transmission, on November 21, 2020 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Ken Jack/Getty Images)International

    Stiffed by an airline for a flight you couldn’t take? This U.K. watchdog is on the case

    By Karin Matussek and Bloomberg
  • Markus Braun, the former CEO of Wirecard, was placed under arrestInternational

    Wirecard’s former CEO arrested in the case of the missing billions

    By Karin Matussek, Sarah Syed, and others
  • President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaks to the media at EC headquarter in April in Brussels, Belgium. On Sunday, European the Commission threatened to sue Germany after last week’s German high court ruling challenging the mandate of the ECB, and ultimately the authority of the EU.International

    Sue the Germans? A power struggle between the EU and its biggest member could turn into an epic legal battle

    By Karin Matussek, Stephanie Bodoni, and others
  • Israel last month invoked an emergency patent-suspension clause in its 1967 code for the first time, allowing it to import a generic version of AbbVie Inc.’s Kaletra, which has shown signs of combating coronavirus.International

    Coronavirus crisis may bring out old tool in disease fights: suspension of drug patents

    By Hugo Miller, Karin Matussek, and others
  • Volkswagen emission scandal - Callback

    SEC Sues Volkswagen for Concealing Its Diesel Emissions Cheating from Investors

    By Peter Blumberg, Karin Matussek, and others