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    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      News in-depth
      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

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      News in-depthWirecard AG
      The high-living entrepreneur brought low by his links to Wirecard

      Prosecutors allege James Henry O’Sullivan secretly controlled companies that were used to inflate profits and siphon off cash

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      Wirecard AG
      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

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Wirecard AG
      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

    • 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

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      Wirecard AG
      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, 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

    • 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

    • Friday, 25 June, 2021
      Due Diligence
      The emails that reveal Wirecard’s chaotic unravelling Premium content

      Plus, Credit Suisse cuts Sanjeev Gupta some slack, and a look back at the life of colourful software magnate John McAfee

    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Philippine authorities file criminal complaint against ex-Wirecard COO

      National Bureau of Investigation recommends Jan Marsalek faces charges over collapse of German payment group

    • Friday, 7 May, 2021
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Marsalek’s assistant handled six-digit amounts of cash in plastic bags

      Former Wirecard employee told MPs that one of the withdrawals was for a businessman convicted in US

    • Friday, 16 April, 2021
      Wirecard AG
      German official ‘alarmed’ about Wirecard’s Marsalek in 2018

      Parliamentary inquiry into disgraced payments company told about former COO’s intelligence links

    • Friday, 9 April, 2021
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Jan Marsalek’s behind-the-scenes role in Wirecard’s most contentious deal

      Payment group’s fugitive ex-COO worked to improve the websites of Indian companies later acquired

    • Friday, 26 March, 2021
      Wirecard AG
      BaFin chief admits watchdog made errors ahead of Wirecard collapse

      Felix Hufeld and deputy stand by short selling ban on German payment group’s shares before its collapse

    • Friday, 29 January, 2021
      Wirecard AG
      Prosecutors delayed arrest warrant for Wirecard’s Jan Marsalek

      German law enforcement authority faces parliamentary scrutiny over decision

    • Sunday, 24 January, 2021
      Wirecard AG
      Two Austrians arrested for organising escape of Wirecard’s Jan Marsalek

      Former secret service official and ex-MP in custody after former chief operating officer absconded to Belarus

    • Friday, 25 December, 2020
      Due Diligence
      The best of DD’s corporate finance coverage in 2020 Premium content

      We’re counting down our top-10 topics of the year

    • Monday, 14 December, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      EY fraud unit found ‘red-flag indicators’ at Wirecard in 2018

      Audit partners signed off accounts despite warnings from colleagues

    • Monday, 7 December, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek took bank lending decision

      Former chief operating officer took crucial credit decision without having formal role at Bafin-regulated lender

    • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
      Financial services
      Wirecard’s Braun says regulators not to blame in scandal

      Former CEO gives statement to German parliamentary inquiry but refuses to answer questions

    • Sunday, 8 November, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      Philippine authorities investigate transactions for links to Wirecard

      Manila probes law office and tour operator over possible ties to collapsed payments firm

    • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      Wirecard: how it misled investors over KPMG’s special audit

      Executives defied directions from supervisory board as forensic accountants closed in

    • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Whistleblower warned EY of Wirecard fraud four years before collapse

      Exclusive: Employee at payments group’s longtime auditor flagged suspicious accounting and attempted bribery in 2016

    • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      Police raided KfW headquarters over €100m loan to Wirecard

      Frankfurt prosecutors are investigating employees of Germany’s state-owned lender

    • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
      Due Diligence
      Project Panther: Wirecard’s plan to cover a €1.9bn hole Premium content

      Coupling with Deutsche Bank could have meant hiding its ‘missing’ funds from investigators

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