Heinz-Joachim Neubuerger, the former Siemens AG chief financial officer who was embroiled in the company’s bribery scandal has died.

According to reports, Neubuerger death was apparently the result of suicide. The former Siemens executive was found dead in his Munich home.

According to Bloomberg, in December 2013 Neubuerger was ordered to pay Siemens the sum of 15 million euros in damages for his role in the bribery scandal. The scandal was the biggest in Germany’s corporate history, with bribes and kickbacks paid to win contracts in over a dozen countries including Greece.

In August 2014, Neubuerger reached a settlement to pay 2.5 million euros in damages – a figure that was approved at Siemens’s annual meeting on January 27.

In contrast to other executives involved in the scandal, Neubuerger contested charges that he had failed to tackle a web of corruption at the company.

The ruling ordering him to pay the damages is considered a landmark decision in upholding a German law of manager responsibility. It sparked a wide-ranging debate in the world of corporate law.

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