Three years after he suddenly resigned as CEO of Steinhoff, Markus Jooste was charged this week in Germany with accounting fraud.
Jooste and his three co-accused have been charged by the Oldenburg public prosecutor's office with numerous counts of presenting false financial accounts between July 2011 and January 2015. Two of Jooste's co-accused are former Steinhoff executives, while the third is accused of helping them.