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    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Wirecard hacker sentenced to 80 months in prison

      US prosecutors say Aviram Azari orchestrated and facilitated ‘international hacking-for-hire spearphishing campaign’

      The headquarters of the now insolvent Wirecard in Munich
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      News in-depth
      Wirecard’s byzantine fraud grips courts in Munich and Singapore

      A complex international set-up and an absconded top executive have made going tough for investigators

      From left: Markus Braun, Jan Marsalek and James Henry O’Sullivan
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      Wirecard’s auditor EY was too gullible, Singapore suspect claims

      Asian trustee of German payments firm admits fabricating documents

      Singaporean Shan Rajaratnam arriving at the State Courts for a Wirecard hearing
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      Jan Marsalek claims third-party business survived Wirecard collapse

      Former second-in-command turned fugitive says outsourced operations continue to be in operation

      Police photographs of former Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek
    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      Jan Marsalek sends unsolicited letter to judges in Wirecard trial

      German lawyer of fugitive former second-in-command submitted his client’s comments in court hearing in Munich

      The logo of German payments provider Wirecard
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      Singapore fines financial institutions over Wirecard-related breaches

      DBS, OCBC, Citibank and Swiss Life punished for inadequate controls

      Exterior view of the Wirecard building
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Singapore hands down first Wirecard criminal convictions

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

      The logo of Wirecard pictured at its headquarters in Aschheim, near Munich, Germany
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      Markus Braun told Wirecard’s top lawyer that compliance was ‘crap’, court hears

      Collapsed German payments company retrospectively created supervisory board minutes, says group’s former legal chief

      Markus Braun
    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Inside BusinessOlaf Storbeck
      The paradoxical lessons from EY’s punishment over Wirecard

      Regulatory reform of the audit industry is still unfinished business

    • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
      Wirecard boss threatened ‘legal steps’ against KPMG over special audit

      Partner at Big Four firm says Markus Braun invited him skiing as he sought to water down probe

      Markus Braun in court
    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      EY
      EY banned by German audit watchdog over Wirecard work

      Big Four firm cannot take on listed companies as new clients for two years

      The EY logo on the company’s offices in London
    • 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

      Wirecard offices in Germany
    • 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

      Markus Braun enters the hearing room at the Munich Higher Regional Court
    • 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

      Hans Marsalek
    • 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

      An IIFL Private Wealth logo
    • 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

      James Henry O’Sullivan stands at a private jet
    • 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

      Exterior of Wirecard headquarters
    • 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

      Markus Braun sits in the dock in the courtroom during the 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

      FT montage of Markus Braun and the Wirecard logo
    • 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

      Documents for a session of the investigative committee on the Wirecard accounting scandal, in Berlin
    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      EY
      EY auditors escape potential Wirecard sanctions after leaving profession

      Watchdog closes cases against four individuals who handed back licences

      The EY logo on top of a building
    • 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

      Presiding Judge Markus Födisch
    • 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

      Oliver Bellenhaus, centre, wearing a mask
    • 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

      Oliver Bellenhaus, centre, in court on Monday
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