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    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      EY came close to uncovering Wirecard fraud in 2016

      Collapsed payments firm’s trustee accidentally told the auditor that he did not hold any money on its behalf

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      EY
      EY auditors escape potential Wirecard sanctions after leaving profession

      Watchdog closes cases against four individuals who handed back licences

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      EY could have stopped Wirecard fraud earlier, says judge

      Big Four firm should have acted after learning about fake software sales, court hears

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Wirecard CEO ‘demanded retrospective changes to data’

      Markus Braun is implicated by former lieutenant in court case examining collapse of payments firm

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      A philosophical dilemma for Wirecard’s fast-living chief witness

      Former manager must convince the court that businesses he ran in Asia did not exist

    • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
      Chief Wirecard witness denies deleting data before talking to police

      Oliver Bellenhaus accuses lawyer for ex-CEO Markus Braun of distorting evidence to undermine his credibility

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      Wirecard was ‘sloppily done fraud’, court hears

      Oliver Bellenhaus says the deception was driven by the former CEO’s desire to make the company look successful

    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
      Lawyer of former Wirecard chief Braun seeks suspension of trial

      Prosecutors accused of ignoring crucial evidence and relying on witness who told ‘pack of lies’

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Wirecard bosses accused of ‘criminal racket’ as trial begins

      Collapsed payments group’s former chief Markus Braun could face jail term of up to 15 years if convicted of all charges

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      A bombproof courtroom and a CEO in the dock: what to expect from the Wirecard trial

      A panel of Munich judges will from Thursday begin dissecting one of the biggest frauds in German history

    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
      German regulator postpones verdict on flaws in EY’s Wirecard audits

      Final decision on potential misconduct will be crucial for Big Four firm’s future in Germany

    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      Wirecard CEO to face fraud trial by end of year

      Munich court accepted fraud charges against Markus Braun

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      ReviewFilm
      Skandal: Bringing Down Wirecard — FT plays lead role in bizarre but true story

      Netflix documentary captures all the improbable twists in the rise and fall of the German online payments giant

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      Paul Murphy
      Coming to a screen near you, the Wirecard scandal

      Netflix documentary charts the story of how an FT reporter took down a huge German company

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Due Diligence
      The hedge fund billionaire playing activist at his former firm Premium content

      Plus, bankers and lawyers search for a way around Biden’s new buyback tax and controversial financier Lars Windhorst tells DD he’s good for the money

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      News in-depthFT Investigations
      Inside Wirecard

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

    • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Wirecard forged client details to secure €900mn investment from SoftBank

      Collapsed German payments group fabricated data to reassure Japanese investor

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Wirecard’s former top accountant admits forging documents for KPMG special audit

      Stephan von Erffa said fabricated payment authorisation was an isolated event

    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      Rachman Review podcast33 min listen
      Wirecard: the investigation that brought down a German tech giant

      The FT’s Dan McCrum talks about his book ‘Money Men’

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      Financial fraud
      Why we trust fraudsters

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

    • 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

    • 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

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