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Dan McCrum

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Dan McCrum joined the Financial Times in 2007. He has covered business and finance from both sides of the Atlantic, and has a particular interest in accounting fraud and corporate misbehaviour.

His acclaimed book Money Men: a hot startup, a billion dollar fraud, a fight for the truth was made into the Netflix feature documentary Skandal! Bringing down Wirecard.

Dan has won more than a dozen prizes for his reporting, including Journalist of the Year at the 2020 British Journalism Awards.

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    Adani shares slide and politicians demand action after reports on hidden investors

    Revelations exposed opaque offshore structures that shielded some of the Indian group’s largest shareholders from public sight

  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
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    Secret paper trail reveals hidden Adani investors

    Following claims of share price manipulation, new documents uncover potentially controversial shareholders in one of India’s biggest conglomerates

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  • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
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    Singapore hands down first Wirecard criminal convictions

    Two former executives given jail sentences related to collapse of once high-flying German payments group

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  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
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    Why EY identified “a potential risk of bias or fraud through management manipulation by manual adjustments”

  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
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    Private jet disrupter: the debt-fuelled ascent of Thomas Flohr’s VistaJet

    Lossmaking airline’s founder has become an aviation superstar as his company amassed a fleet of luxury aircraft

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  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
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    Wirecard suit against Indian group can proceed, High Court rules

    Two former shareholders in a business sold to the payments company allege they were defrauded

    Wirecard offices in Germany
  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
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  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
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  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
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    Scottish Mortgage seeks non-executive’s exit after boardroom clash

    Amar Bhidé says he disagreed with chair over process to appoint two new board members

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  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Wirecard AG
    Indian group fights Wirecard fraud claim in London court

    Hearing comes in litigation over a series of transactions allegedly arranged by co-founder of IIFL Wealth

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  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
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    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

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  • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
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    Short seller claims ‘campaign of harassment’ aimed to deter him from reporting on now collapsed German group

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  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
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    California institution that serves start-up scene under scrutiny over investments that have left it with unrealised $15bn loss

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    UK cyber group accused of irregular accounting practices by Quintessential Capital Management

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  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
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    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

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  • Monday, 10 October, 2022
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    The best-performing US bank of last year has seen its share price tumble

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

    Collapsed German payments group fabricated data to reassure Japanese investor

    The logo of German payments provider Wirecard is seen at a building of the company’s headquarters in Aschheim near Munich in 2020
  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
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    From Enron to Wirecard, elaborate scams can remain undetected long after the warning signs appear. What are investors missing?

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

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

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