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Loneliness Behind Bars: Wirecard Boss Braun Complains About U-Liability

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After three and a half years of trial, the accused ex-manager talks for the first time about his life in the JVA Munich-Stadelheim – and plans the time after that.

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After six years of pre-trial detention, former Wirecard boss Markus Braun feels lonely, but unbroken. "The main challenge is to be completely torn out of the family," he said on the 270th day of the negotiations in Munich. He is now divorced, but not for alienation, as the defendant stressed. "The relationship with my wife and family is still strong," said Braun. He gets a visit from his ex-wife and his eight-year-old daughter once a month. In g…

·Vienna, Austria
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The former stock market star Markus Braun is already in custody for six years. It is difficult to be "outcast" from family life. It is unclear when a verdict is handed down against him in the billion-dollar fraud trial.

·Germany
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He was "further very energetic", said the ex-manager from Austria on the 270th day of the Munich Wirecard process.

·Vienna, Austria
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After three and a half years of trial, the accused ex-manager talks for the first time about his life in the JVA Munich-Stadelheim – and plans the time after that.

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On the 270th day of the trial for billions of fraud, the former Wirecard manager speaks of "loneliness and isolation." Nevertheless, he was convinced that he would soon be able to "do something constructive again."

·Frankfurt, Germany
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In the Wirecard process, it becomes personal: ex-group boss Markus Braun and his fellow defendants report on what detention and trial have done to them – and what they intend to do in the future.

·Munich, Germany
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wiwo.de broke the news in Düsseldorf, Germany on Wednesday, July 8, 2026.
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