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Dan McCrum

@FD

7 months

Who is Jan Marsalek? Well, have I got one hell of a story for you

Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

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Dan McCrum

@FD

2 years

Today's the day! Our movie is out on Netflix! #wirecardskandal Let me know what you think

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Dan McCrum

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2 years

Wow. Many words bound and printed. Almost eight years since @johnhempton mentioned a funny little German company called Wirecard. Never imagined where it would lead

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Dan McCrum

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3 years

I’m kinda speechless. Thanks everyone, thanks to the jury, the whistleblowers, and the wonderful @CharlotteMcCrum who had to put up with Wirecard’s trolls and shenanigans, as well as me.

Press Gazette

@pressgazette

3 years

The Journalist of the Year award goes to Dan McCrum @FD of the @FT who faced down intimidation, surveillance and personal threats as well as a campaign of disinformation to bring down one of Germany’s most garlanded businesses, Wirecard #BJA2020

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Dan McCrum

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4 years

"Have you been arrested yet?" This is the tale of the spies, the hacking, the put-up job, the sock puppets, the fancy restaurants, the digital handbag and the many, many professionals taking Wirecard's money to fight and intimidate its critics

Wirecard and me: Dan McCrum on exposing a criminal enterprise

Intimidation, surveillance and conspiracy theories: inside the FT’s five-year investigation of a billion-dollar fraud

www.ft.com

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Dan McCrum

@FD

1 year

A clear out of legal files at the FT unearthed that time Wirecard sued me for half a million euros. Great days

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

I'm delighted to receive the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism 2020

Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung

@LEStiftung

4 years

Ludwig-Erhard-Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik 2020 geht an #Wirecard -Aufdecker Dan McCrum ( @FD ) von @FinancialTimes . Förderpreise an @MartinBraml , ifo Zentrum für Außenwirtschaft, @ifo_Institut und @HansRusinek , Chefredakteur @transformag .

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Dan McCrum

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3 years

This lovely object arrived in the post

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Dan McCrum

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2 years

MONEY MEN is out today! The thrilling true story of Wirecard’s wild rise and crashing fall charts an investigation like no other. It reveals hidden worlds of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. 🧵1/6

Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

www.amazon.co.uk

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

A good morning to all the whistleblowers, and a very big thank you.

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

Today's FT front page is one for the scrap book

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2 years

Proof! Very excited to get this from my publisher this morning.

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Dan McCrum

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4 years

For background on Wirecard collapse today, these are the two key stories. In October, we wrote that sales and profits appeared fraudulently inflated. In December, we wrote that "trustee accounts" were included in cash balances.

Wirecard’s singular approach to counting cash

German fintech boosted its cash reserves using trust accounts from its payments processing operations

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Dan McCrum

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1 year

Good morning America, the New Yorker has one hell of a tale for you today

How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled

The tech company Wirecard was embraced by the German élite. But a reporter discovered that behind the façade of innovation were lies and links to Russian intelligence.

www.newyorker.com

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Dan McCrum

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3 years

Personal news Klaxon! 🚨🚨 I’m writing a BOOK about the Wirecard adventure, to be published in the UK by those terrific folks at Transworld

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

We made a video to explain the Wirecard story: "At times I thought I was going crazy."

Wirecard and the missing €1.9bn: my story

Surveillance, spear phishing and missing billions. 'At times I thought I was going crazy.' Dan McCrum explains the twists and turns behind the massive fraud

www.ft.com

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Dan McCrum

@FD

2 years

Jan Marsalek spotted in Moscow! SZ have teamed up with the Dossier Center to track down Wirecard's absconded spymaster/thief, with a lot of detail about his new name - German Bazhenov - restaurant choices, FSB minders, and a possible picture 👇

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

Has a company ever filed for insolvency while still a member of the Dax 30 before? Asking for a friend

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

It feels great to finally have the backstory to our long Wirecard investigation out. There wasn't room for all the twists and turns, or the battles faced by several people who helped expose the Wirecard fraud. I'm looking forward to telling their stories as well.

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Dan McCrum

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4 years

Siri, what is the point of M&A?

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Dan McCrum

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1 year

Startling figures from @jburnmurdoch on how many Americans die young

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Dan McCrum

@FD

2 years

I’m looking forward to Twitter’s hard to explain increases in sales and profits

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing, indications auditors deceived, €2bn of loans could be terminated if accounts not published tomorrow. Stock down two-thirds, FT story imminent

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Dan McCrum

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4 years

Thinking about no-deal Brexit, I'm reminded of @davidallengreen 's point that the poll tax fury and rioting only started when the bills arrived. He quoted Ivor King and Antony Crewe:

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Dan McCrum

@FD

2 years

This is very cool, premiere tonight!

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Dan McCrum

@FD

6 months

Let’s name them. Schillings investigated me and threatened us with action, along with Herbert Smith Freehills. Wirecard used Bub Memminger in Germany for its SLAPP

Dan Neidle

@DanNeidle

6 months

An unnamed law firm acted for Wirecard against the FT in a defamation action following the FT’s reporting by @FD @danmccrum that Wirecard was engaged in fraud. The reporting was correct. Using defamation proceedings to silence true accusations is characteristic of a SLAPP.

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Dan McCrum

@FD

2 years

The last seven years of my life have been wild, full of weirdos, spies, outlandish discoveries, sleuthing, hangovers, bungling criminals, madcap schemes, Libyan militias and Russian nerve gas. And it’s all in this book, out June 2022. Order your copy here:

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

Bellingcat traces Wirecard’s Jan Marsalek to Belarus, and has details of his many trips to Russia and multiple passports

World's Most Wanted Man Jan Marsalek Located in Belarus; Data Points to Russian Intel Links -...

It can safely be assumed that Jan Marsalek is currently one of the most hunted-for persons on earth. The company he oversaw operationally, Germany’s Wirecard, collapsed overnight last month after...

www.bellingcat.com

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Dan McCrum

@FD

2 years

The #cryptocrash reminds me a little bit of the day Wirecard announced €1.9bn of its money was "missing". (June 18, 2020, two years ago this week) 🧵

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Dan McCrum

@FD

3 years

“A crime to tell the truth.” Don’t let 2021 arrive without reading this eye-opening account of the Assange case by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

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Dan McCrum

@FD

3 years

I tried knocking, but no one was home

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Dan McCrum

@FD

3 years

Same as it ever was

Bitcoin Zen

@BitcoinZen2

3 years

Missed a 2017 masterpiece 😂👌 "bitcoin has all the attributes of a pyramid scheme, requiring a constant influx of converts to push up the price, based on the promise of its use by future converts. So the ultimate value for bitcoin will be the same as all pyramid schemes: zero."

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Dan McCrum

@FD

5 years

Wirecard’s suspect accounting practices revealed - new story! Documents point to an effort to fraudulently inflate sales and profits, and we’ve published them as well

Wirecard’s suspect accounting practices revealed

FT Investigation: internal documents from the payments company point to a concerted effort to fraudulently inflate sales and profits

www.ft.com

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Dan McCrum

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8 months

New FT investigation! We unpick the paper trail to discover two of Adani's biggest 'public' investors are associates of an Adani family member, and authorities suspected market manipulation years before @HindenburgRes allegations.

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@JohnReedwrites

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Secret paper trail reveals hidden Adani investors: our investigation based on documents shared with the @FT by the @OCCRP . By @FD and me #India #AdaniGroup

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

A very big thank you to the whistleblowers, without whom Wirecard would still be going strong

Pav G.

@Laan_Pa

4 years

Would be nice if in all this back slapping the praises were given to the #Wirecard whistleblowers too who courageously gave the @FT the material they needed at grave risk to themselves and their families.

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Dan McCrum

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3 years

This lovely object just arrived in the post, there’s a nice heft to it (banana for scale)

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

New twist in the FT Investigation - Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek bragged to London traders about his access to secret documents by showing them the formula for Novichok, the world's deadliest nerve agent. Free to read story:

Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek touted Russian nerve gas documents

Vanished chief operating officer of fraud-hit payments group hinted at secret service links

www.ft.com

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Dan McCrum

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2 years

@duncanrobinson Reminded of this tremendous lede

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

Carried interest is income Carried interest is income Carried interest is income Tax it as income.

Kaye Wiggins

@kayewiggins

4 years

Higher tax on private equity executives’ lucrative, sometimes life-changing ‘carried interest’ payments would drive the industry out of the UK, a lobby group is set to warn. ⁦ @FT ⁩ scoop

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Dan McCrum

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4 years

"Expanding the court is the way to save it. It’s a lot like breaking a bone to reset the leg."

Elie Mystal

@ElieNYC

4 years

If they insist on doing this, there's only one solution: expanding the court. Everybody is familiar with the vengeance argument for court expansion, let me give you the REFORM argument. Court expansion is good, on its own merits. My latest in @thenation

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Dan McCrum

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3 years

Behind the collapse of Wirecard is a mother who pushed her son to do the right thing. “Oh my god, what have you done now?” thought Pav. The tale of the reluctant whistleblower revealed today

Wirecard’s reluctant whistleblower tells his story: ‘They tried to destroy me’

Pav Gill, who exposed one of Europe’s biggest corporate frauds, says doing the right thing ‘always has a cost’

www.ft.com

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Dan McCrum

@FD

1 year

I did not expect to start the weekend on top of Stormy Daniels

Aristoc Booklex Limited

@aristoc_booklex

1 year

Get ready for an exciting 2023 reading list with our latest arrivals! 📚💥 Discover gripping true stories like "Money Men" by @FD , unravelling a billion-dollar fraud, "Full Disclosure" by @StormyDaniels , a candid memoir, and "Rage" by @realBobWoodward , an insider's account of

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Well look at that, the Munich Prosecutors have dropped the case against @stef_palma and me.

German prosecutor drops Wirecard investigation into FT reporters

Financial watchdog had levelled accusations of potential market manipulation over coverage of payments processor

www.ft.com

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Dan McCrum

@FD

2 years

Wirecard office furniture sale here, for anyone wanting that fintech fraud aesthetic

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

Jan Marsalek has left the building, gone to the airport, and flown to Manilla, says SZ. He is not on the run, however! "Friends of Marsalek say that he wants to get documents that could help clarify the case."

Wirecard Markus Braun: Der Absturz

Markus Braun war Milliardär, jetzt ist er nur noch Millionär. Was womöglich schwerer wiegt: Dem Ex-Chef von Wirecard droht womöglich eine lange Haft. Zu tun hat er es mit einer akribischen Ermittle...

www.sueddeutsche.de

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

Predatory pricing, aggressive and possibly illegal tax strategies, labour exploitation

Scott Gorlick

@sgorlick

4 years

In 2 years, Uber went from being in just a few cities to more than 100. How did Uber grow so quickly? We recruited hundreds of thousands of drivers. I get asked a lot about how we did it, so here are some lessons that might be helpful to other startups 👇👇👇

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Dan McCrum

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3 years

Fraud!

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Dan McCrum

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4 years

Hallo Deutsche freunde, wir haben dem Wirecard-Video untertitel hinzugefügt.

Wirecard and the missing €1.9bn: my story (German subtitles)

German subtitled version. Dan McCrum explains the twists and turns behind the massive fraud

www.ft.com

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Dan McCrum

@FD

4 years

Wirecard’s core business was loss making for years - new story from @OlafStorbeck based on the full set of info KPMG gave to the supervisory board in April

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2 years

"Being a journalist, you get to do all sorts of things you're not supposed to..."

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Dan McCrum

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4 years

Another day in Germany

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4 years

A body in a burned car. Accusations of spying. Secret tapes. Crazy, crazy story from @OlafStorbeck :

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Dan McCrum

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4 years

This is the same DWS which invested about €500m of its investors’ money into Wirecard straight after we published our October piece on the apparent fraud, and the documents which supported it.

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@MilesMJohnson

4 years

This DWS guy earns a living charging chunky fees to invest pension money. He now appears to be blaming “credulous” bank analysts for not spotting Wirecard, but not himself. So when investments work out well does he say “Oh it wasn’t me mate, I just read the Commerzbank note”?

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Dan McCrum

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3 years

Jaw is on the floor with this one.

Lionel Barber

@lionelbarber

3 years

UNBELIEVABLE ...German audit watchdog chief faces probe over HIS OWN Wirecard share trading (and he surely must be played by Oliver Kalkofe in the coming movie starring @FD ) via @financialtimes

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Dan McCrum

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26 days

Commiserations to all the consultants on the drastic reduction in length of their gravy train

Ziad Daoud

@ZiadMDaoud

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Saudi is scaling back 'The Line' project in Neom • 2030 population target: from 1.5 million to 300k • Length: from 170 km to 2.4 km by 2030 • At least one contractor is dismissing some workers on the site

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Wirecard chief exec Markus Braun quits

Wirecard chief quits as crisis deepens

Markus Braun resigns as payment group’s shares continue to collapse and investors threaten legal action

www.ft.com

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Dan McCrum

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2 years

If you didn't want to read the FT's tether coverage before...

Tether

@Tether_to

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FT Article Goes Down Road of Tabloid Journalism

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2 years

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies

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@MartinSLewis

2 years

When people, especially reactionary people, trend on twitter. If you click it, often the tweets seem to be from people saying "can't believe XXXXXX is trending, its a disgrace" - perpetuating the trend. Perhaps ignoring trends you don't like would be a better strategy?

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3 years

Wirecard used to claim it used AI all the time, while on the inside staff cobbled together spreadsheets

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@i_woodford

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Over 800 European fintechs say they use "AI and machine learning". But so did Greensill, a company now on its knees and without any tech prowess to show. It begs the question: how many fintechs *really* use elite tech tools? And is a reality check due?

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Dan McCrum

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4 years

ASTOUNDING Wirecard story from @samgadjones , Paul Murphy and @helenwarrell It was early 2018 when Jan Marsalek held a meeting in his palatial home in Munich to talk about a new project he was interested in: arming and training 15,000 Libyan militiamen.

From payments to armaments: the double life of Wirecard’s Jan Marsalek | Free to read

A suspect in one of Germany’s biggest financial frauds talked of assembling a Libyan militia and bragged of adventures with Russian troops

www.ft.com

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4 years

"Water running along a pavement will readily seep into every crack; so, too, did the unchecked coronavirus seep into every fault line in the modern world." Must read piece from @edyong209 For instance, every stat in this paragraph

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2 years

Apropos of nothing at all, a common tactic of liars is to answer a question with a question.

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2 months

Football news! Everton FC bidder 777’s funding structure starts to unravel Not just for sports fans. US insurance money was funnelled into trophy assets, throwing a spotlight on Bermudan regulators just as private equity makes the island its new home

Everton FC bidder 777’s funding structure starts to unravel

US insurer with extensive links to investment group looks to raise capital and regain control of assets ceded to reinsurer

www.ft.com

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2 years

To celebrate the publication of MONEY MEN we are offering one lucky winner a signed copy of this real life thriller. RT to win, delivered to a UK address, winner drawn June 18.

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4 years

Attention today is moving to the Philippines, which is where the amazing @stef_palma went last year to look for Wirecard's partners and found a bemused sailor

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2 years

It's been seven wild years of adventures, weirdos and spies since the first House of Wirecard story appeared on Alphaville. Every twist and turn is in this book, which is going to be published in German on May 27

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4 years

The rise and fall of Wirecard with the indefatigable @OlafStorbeck

Wirecard’s future in doubt after missing cash sparks investor flight

Auditor’s findings trigger collapse in German group’s stock market value

www.ft.com

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6 years

This bears up well, so far. How the EU negotiates

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10 months

"To say that the Metaverse is dead is an understatement. It was never alive."

Thierry Lillette

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Lessons From the Catastrophic Failure of the Metaverse

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This government

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The head of the UK’s vaccine taskforce - no vaccine experience, retains her job in private equity, is married to a Conservative minister who went to Eton with Boris - disclosed “official sensitive” docs and told investors which drugs the UK might buy.

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New twist: immigration data showed Mr Marsalek arriving in Manila on June 23 and leaving for China the next day, but “CCTV footage does not show him arriving here and there is no record of any flight to China scheduled in the morning of June 24 from Cebu”.

Philippines investigates Wirecard’s local partners

Central bank governor vows to ‘clean up mess’ as south-east Asian country dragged into scandal

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4 years

So many amazing details of the final months inside Wirecard, reconstructed here by @OlafStorbeck As you read it ask: if I were on the board, at what point would I have called the police?

Wirecard: the frantic final months of a fraudulent operation

A plan to buy Deutsche Bank is now seen as part of a desperate effort to disguise fraud at the German payments group

www.ft.com

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@stef_palma So Twitter locked my account yesterday. The tweets linking to the evidence informing our investigation were against the rules of this website, apparently.

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4 years

The House of Wirecard Half bond movie, half Dilbert cartoon

David Sheppard

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The Wirecard fraud is a scandal for the ages. But has it also unwittingly revealed the futility of so many non-jobs in corporate office life? The saga has been half Bond movie, half Dilbert cartoon.

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Good morning, so @samgadjones discovered that Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek was grandson to a suspected Russian spy.

Wirecard fraudster Jan Marsalek’s grandfather was suspected Russian spy

Austrian authorities linked anti-Nazi fighter Hans Marsalek with kidnap and torture of four people in postwar era

www.ft.com

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With Tesla's results due next week and its production target in mind, I'll re-up this for the 500,000th time

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Money Laundering - enter the ’Ndrangheta Wirecard processed payments for a Maltese online casino that was later revealed to have laundered money for one of Europe’s most dangerous mafias. Scoop from @MilesMJohnson and me

Wirecard processed payments for mafia-linked casino

Malta-based gaming company CenturionBet was used by the ’Ndrangheta crime organisation to launder money

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4 years

Catching up on yesterday’s news that Markus Braun has had his bail revoked, and Wirecard’s former CFO is in custody too. Prosecutors now think the alleged fraud started in 2015. They may want to have a look at the years before that as well.

Former Wirecard CEO rearrested and accused of long-running fraud

Markus Braun and other executives detained in wake of collapse of once high-flying German technology group

www.ft.com

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5 years

FT Statement

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4 years

The Wirecard fraud centres on faked documents. Where did we start last year? Whistleblower allegations of forged invoices and bogus contracts at its Asian headquarters

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Story here Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing

Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing

Shares of payments group crash as it says a third party may have tried ‘to deceive’ its auditor

www.ft.com

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2 years

Is there ever a more reassuring sentence than ‘don’t worry, your money is safe’?

Watcher.Guru

@WatcherGuru

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JUST IN: 🇸🇻 El Salvador President says "if you invested in #Bitcoin your investment is safe and its value will immensely grow after the bear market."

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"Think All The King’s Men meets The Big Short” says the FT. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Skandal: Bringing Down Wirecard film review — FT plays lead role in bizarre but true story

[FREE TO READ] Netflix documentary captures all the improbable twists in the rise and fall of the German online payments giant

www.ft.com

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Got a book to write. Ok bye

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Why do we trust fraudsters? My piece for the Weekend FT takes a look at scams from Enron to Wirecard to explain why investors, staff and regulators keep falling for the big lie

Why we trust fraudsters

From Enron to Wirecard, elaborate scams can remain undetected long after the warning signs appear. What are investors missing?

www.ft.com

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A boat leaves for India carrying coal. While at sea the price of its cargo unaccountably doubles…

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@JohnReedwrites

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More digging from @FD and @FT on the Adani coal imports that quietly doubled in value. “The data supports longstanding allegations that Adani…has been inflating fuel costs and led to millions of Indian consumers and businesses overpaying for electricity.”

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France is bacon

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Significant new Wirecard story by @OlafStorbeck @Tabby_Kinder and @stef_palma : EY failed for more than three years to request crucial account information from a Singapore bank where Wirecard claimed it had up to €1bn in cash — a routine audit procedure

EY failed to check Wirecard bank statements for 3 years

Auditor of insolvent payments group under fire for failing to detect fraud

www.ft.com

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Wirecard scored a legal victory in London yesterday, as in the mind of Judge Ross Cranston fraudulent conduct by Wirecard just didn't make sense on the balance of probabilities. This Linklaters paragraph is one to file away:

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One of the best moments of our investigation was talking to Stefania after she visited the address of a supposed Wirecard payments processor outside Manila and found a fisherman's house. "Oh my god Dan, you won't believe it..."

Stefania Palma

@stef_palma

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So pleased to watch the Reporterpreis award ceremony overnight - big kudos to @FD & team @murphyp @OlafStorbeck Thank you @reporterforum for the acknowledgement - here's link to @OlafScholz & Dan's speeches

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BaFin noted the “homogenous cultural background” of Israeli and British investors targeting Wirecard when summarising grounds for a suspected conspiracy. More incredible reporting from @OlafStorbeck

Olaf Storbeck

@OlafStorbeck

3 years

“BaFin’s statement is evidence of a deeply rooted siege mentality and a repulsion of Anglo American capital market structures... This language .. is unworthy of a German regulatory agency.” @DerDanyal nails it.

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Dan McCrum

@FD

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Regulate, reduce harm

Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

4 years

This is a fascinating piece by @SteveTransform outlining a viable plan for the legalisation of cocaine, MDMA and amphetamines

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@FD

4 years

Wirecard acknowledged for the first time on Monday the potential scale of a multiyear accounting fraud, as the Germany payments group warned that €1.9bn of cash on its balance sheet probably does “not exist”.

Wirecard fights for survival as it admits scale of fraud

Police open probe and regulator says affair is ‘a shame’ for Germany as payments group withdraws previous results

www.ft.com

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Dan McCrum

@FD

2 years

Dossier Centre version with cool double-life picture, from Munich to Moscow

From Munich to Moscow

The inside story of how fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek fled from a 2 billion euro corruption saga in Germany and wound up living under state protection in Russia

dossier.center

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Dan McCrum

@FD

2 years

Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard is 🔥🔥🔥 Terrific reception at the Curzon Mayfair last night, I can’t wait for the rest of the world to start watching it on Netflix tomorrow. Enormous thanks to the FT, Passion Pictures and Netflix. What a story to tell. #wirecardskandal

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@FD

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Here's an interesting company: Fortnox, niche supplier of accounting software that only operates in Sweden, is valued more highly than Nvidia, the chip sensation. @CostasMourselas and I took a look at its metronomic growth and the short sellers circling

The unstoppable rise of Fortnox: Swedish software group attracts short sellers

Analysts question how much further $4.6bn niche business can expand

www.ft.com

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Dan McCrum

@FD

1 year

Maybe unfollow the billionaire

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🚨Competition time 🚨 To mark publication of MONEY MEN, the stranger than fiction thriller about Wirecard's multi-billion dollar fraud, I have 2 proof copies to give away. To enter: predict the $ price of Tether at 10pm BST today. $0.9977 now Closest wins one. Reply to win!

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