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  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Munich court opens door to reclaim dividends from Wirecard investors

    Collapsed payment group’s annual statements declared invalid in landmark ruling

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    The Top LineTom Braithwaite
    Less work for EY auditors? What about more accountability

    The Big Four firm’s German branch has a dubious recipe to avoid a repeat of Wirecard

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    EY Germany to cut staff workloads in post-Wirecard overhaul

    Big Four firm promises to address ‘permanent occupational stress and overburdening’ of its auditors

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    Wirecard middleman pleads guilty to hacking

    Hedge funds, researchers and journalists among targets of personalised phishing mails

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    News in-depthFT Investigations
    Inside Wirecard

    German payments processor has battled allegations of fraud, forgery and opaque business links.

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    German spies shunned offer to meet Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek in Moscow

    Intelligence service feared approach last year by middleman with suspected links to Russia’s FSB agency was a trap

  • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
    Due Diligence
    Follow the ‘Money Men’ Premium content

    Plus, Jamie Dimon finds himself on the bad side of shareholders

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Wirecard: the case against Markus Braun

    The former chief executive of the German payments company that went bust with debts of €3bn faces fraud charges

  • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    EU and UK impose new sanctions on Russian oligarchs

    Hong Kong and China stocks remain volatile as Covid infections rise

  • Monday, 14 March, 2022
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Former Wirecard chief executive charged with fraud

    Munich public prosecutors charge Markus Braun over the collapse of the payments group

  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    ADLER Group SA
    New chair of Adler points to Wirecard as ‘elephant in the room’

    Stefan Kirsten vows to stabilise German property group after ‘loss of confidence’ following fraud allegations

  • Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
    Wirecard investors’ case against German regulator BaFin dismissed by court

    Four civil lawsuits seeking damages for alleged violation of legal duties are struck out

  • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    German prosecutors file first charges in Wirecard fraud

    Authorities last month charged business associate of former payments group executive Jan Marsalek

  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    EU business regulation
    EU seeks more independence for bank regulators after Wirecard scandal

    German supervisor BaFin set to have to cut ties with industry representatives

  • Monday, 22 November, 2021
    Ernst & Young
    EY files criminal complaint over leaking of classified Wirecard report

    Firm pursues unknown sources who gave secret review on audit shortcomings to Handelsblatt

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    Austria
    Senior Austrian defence official ‘removed over links to fugitive Wirecard executive’

    Brigadier Gustav Gustenau was until recently a top officer in the directorate for security policy within the ministry

  • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
    Due Diligence
    How EY missed signs of a ‘fraud in the billions’ Premium content

    Plus Sequoia creates a new a semi-permanent fund to keep investing in companies it helped go public, and DraftKings walks away from Entain bid

  • Monday, 25 October, 2021
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    EY and Wirecard: anatomy of a flawed audit

    First-hand testimony paints a picture of missed opportunities to uncover the fraud and a failure to understand a company EY audited for a decade

  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Rent payment clue in the hunt for Wirecard’s Jan Marsalek

    Munich police investigated €80,000 transfer to landlord of fugitive executive’s fiancée

  • Wednesday, 15 September, 2021
    German election
    Scholz summoned before German MPs over money-laundering scandal

    Election frontrunner under scrutiny over issues opponents hope will cast finance minister in unflattering light

  • Thursday, 2 September, 2021
    Accountancy
    Wirecard-linked British businessman charged in Singapore over fake letter

    Henry O’Sullivan allegedly instructed local firm Citadelle Corporate Services to falsify a document

  • Sunday, 15 August, 2021
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Top German asset manager takes Wirecard administrator to court over losses

    Landmark lawsuit will be closely watched by payments group’s former shareholders, bondholders and lenders

  • Thursday, 12 August, 2021
    German MPs fail in push to publish full report on EY’s Wirecard audits

    Country’s highest court has rejected an attempt to force the publication of an unredacted report

  • Monday, 9 August, 2021
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Prosecutors drop Wirecard insider trading probe into ex-Deutsche board member

    German authorities say evidence against Alexander Schütz does not justify a formal investigation

  • Wednesday, 7 July, 2021
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Court orders Commerzbank to rehire former Wirecard analyst

    Heike Pauls was fired after she briefed collapsed group’s management about criticism

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