[Certhas]

That embarrassing error of a factor 1000 aside, the story is all to real. It's been brewing and been reported on in Germany for a few years now.

And what seems to be a common theme is that some of what has been going on is very hard to prosecute. The first wave of tricks seems to have been basically legal if I recall correctly. I haven't read the new slew of articles about the EU dimension on this yet though.

[chvid]

I have no doubt that there are elements of the story that are correct. But the shocking part of the story is the size of the amounts and the poor reporting by what should be an ace journalistic team coupled with common sense makes me doubt that the scale is correct.

Plus the recent the story that Sanjay was put in jail due to a rubber check. Doesn’t sound like a guy who just got away with 1 B euros.