• The Payments Group Holding flagged criminal-law exposure tied to its dispute with SGT Capital, citing alleged misconduct around anonymous defamatory emails.
• It pointed to an alleged anonymous “smear campaign” email containing child-abuse accusations targeting a company officer, attributed to SGT partner Marianne Rajic.
• It said SGT partner Carsten Geyer allegedly forwarded a defamatory email, then submitted a potentially false affidavit denying the forwarding.
• The matter over the alleged false affidavit is under review by Frankfurt prosecutors, with criminal complaints also filed over the anonymous email campaign.
• The company framed the allegations as part of broader litigation over about EUR 6.1 million of claims against the SGT group.

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