Lawmakers Attack Scholz for Using Private Email in Wirecard Case

German lawmakers accused Finance Minister Olaf Scholz of having caused a security risk by using his private email account to communicate about Wirecard, the payments company that collapsed last year in the biggest auditing scandal in the nation’s postwar history.

Scholz sent emails related to Wirecard to his ministry and the chancellery via his private account, Hans Michelbach, a lawmaker from the ruling Christian Democratic bloc said at a parliamentary inquiry into the company’s downfall. This was a “grave” mistake as it undermined the government’s information security, Michelbach said at the hearing where the finance minister testified on Thursday. ...