Deutsche Bank is involved in a probe into possible criminal wrongdoing after it hired detectives to carry out surveillance of board members in the latest in a series of “spying” scandals at top German companies. Data protection authorities in the bank’s home state of Hesse have asked prosecutors to establish whether to open a criminal inquiry, two months after the bank revealed it would ask external lawyers to investigate the activities of its corporate security department, the FT said.

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