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  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
    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

  • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
    News in-depth
    ‘Do you understand what I say?’ Markus Braun tests patience of Wirecard judge

    Former chief executive has been unwavering that he has no responsibility for one of Europe’s biggest corporate frauds

  • Monday, 20 March, 2023
    News in-depthJan Marsalek
    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

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    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

  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    News in-depth
    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

  • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
    Kroll and Jones Day accused of conspiracy to protect Wirecard

    Short seller claims ‘campaign of harassment’ aimed to deter him from reporting on now collapsed German group

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    Wirecard’s Braun voices ‘deepest regret’ but denies knowledge of fraud

    Former chief of collapsed German payment group rejects ‘all charges’ at Munich trial

  • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
    News in-depth
    Ex-Wirecard chief Markus Braun’s credibility in the dock

    Former head of defunct German payments company accused of making incorrect and misleading statements to investors

  • 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

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