A total of 2,251 civil lawsuits have been filed in the southern German city of Munich in connection with the spectacular collapse of payments provider Wirecard in the summer of 2020. More than half of these – a total of 1,178 proceedings – are claims for damages against the auditing firm EY, Munich court president Beatrix Schobel and her fellow judges said on Friday. Over 400 lawsuits are directed against former boss Markus Braun. Wirecard was a payment service provider at the interface between credit card companies on the one hand and retailers and other sellers on the other. At one point lis…