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    Dan McCrum

    Investigative reporter
    Dan is part of the FT’s investigations team. He is a former editor of FT Alphaville, and his work includes helping to expose accounting problems at Wirecard, a German payments group; the listed law firms Quindell and Slater & Gordon; Globo, a UK software provider; and Folli Follie, a Greek company which invented €1bn of sales. In more than a decade at the FT he’s also been Capital Markets Editor, worked as the FT’s Investment Correspondent in New York, and had stints writing for the Lex Column.
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    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      Signature Bank
      Signature Bank bet big on crypto — and must now reckon with the crash

      The best-performing US bank of last year has seen its share price tumble

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

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

    • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
      EY
      EY revives the big-budget corporate shindig with Florida theme park trip

      Companies had scaled back lavish galas amid pandemic restrictions and climate commitments

    • 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

    • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
      Celsius Network Ltd
      Israeli judge lifts gagging order revealing Celsius Network CFO’s arrest

      Yaron Shalem was one of 10 detained in connection with alleged fraud at other cryptocurrency ventures

    • 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

    • Monday, 22 November, 2021
      Globo PLC
      FCA launches UK High Court action against former Globo executives

      Mobile technology group collapsed in 2015 after accusations of accounting fraud

    • Wednesday, 19 May, 2021
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      ‘They tried to destroy me’: Wirecard’s reluctant whistleblower tells his story

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

    • Monday, 19 October, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      KPMG was engaged as auditor to group used in suspicious Wirecard deals

      Accountancy firm had second thoughts about working with Mauritian-based fund

    • Friday, 2 October, 2020
      News in-depthWirecard AG
      How EY missed the chance to stop Wirecard’s fraud

      Auditors continued to sign off payment group’s accounts even after a whistleblower’s tip

    • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      Singapore shuts down Wirecard’s payment operations

      Move may prove disruptive as many businesses in the city state use its services

    • Wednesday, 23 September, 2020
      News in-depthWirecard AG
      Wirecard’s deceit went beyond its fraudulent Asian operations

      Report from court-appointed administrator reveals the rest of the business was chaotic and unprofitable

    • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      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

    • Sunday, 9 August, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      Singapore charges Wirecard agent with falsification of accounts

      Local businessman accused of playing role of trustee for fake bank accounts linked to German payments group

    • Friday, 7 August, 2020
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Prosecutors suspect Wirecard was looted before collapse

      Payments provider ramped up unsecured loans to opaque business partners in Asia to $1bn earlier this year

    • Wednesday, 5 August, 2020
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Wirecard business partner reported dead in Philippines

      Christopher Bauer was being investigated over the collapse of the German payments group

    • Monday, 3 August, 2020
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Wirecard processed payments for mafia-linked casino

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

    • Saturday, 1 August, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      SoftBank and Wirecard both paid German middleman to broker $1.1bn deal

      Bitcoin and psychedelic drug enthusiast Christian Angermayer collected €13m fee

    • Wednesday, 15 July, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      Wirecard fraud suit over India deal dismissed by High Court

      Judge says involvement of ‘reputable lawyers’ meant a conspiracy was unlikely

    • Wednesday, 15 July, 2020
      FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
      Wirecard made this short seller right but not rich

      Leo Perry of Ennismore Fund Management long believed that payments group was a fraud

    • Thursday, 9 July, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      Police search Wirecard’s Dublin office

      The Garda act after a request for assistance from German authorities

    • Thursday, 9 July, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek touted Russian nerve gas documents

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

    • Monday, 6 July, 2020
      Wirecard AG
      Wirecard executive arrested in Munich on suspicion of fraud

      Oliver Bellenhaus ran unit at heart of corporate scandal from Burj Khalifa apartment in Dubai

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