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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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  • 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 SeriesThe best long reads of 2020
    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

  • Promoted Content
  • 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

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    ExplainerExplainer8 min
    Wirecard and the missing €1.9bn: my story (German subtitles)

    German subtitled version. Dan McCrum explains the twists and turns behind the massive fraud

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    Wirecard AG
    Philippines says vanished Wirecard number two did not enter country

    Immigration records on Jan Marsalek were falsified, according to justice secretary

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    Media
    Further reading

    Dan McCrum; Nathan Tankus; James Jamerson; and much more.

  • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
    Wirecard AG
    Wirecard’s real business relied on small number of customers

    FT exclusive: An internal spreadsheet shows how only 100 clients generated majority of revenues in 2017

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    Fintech
    Wirecard: the cryptocard consequences

    For those who thought compliant Visa/Mastercard-networked cryptocards were too good to be true . . .turns out they probably were.

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Markus Braun, Wirecard chief goes from billionaire to bail

    Arrest on Monday came days before German payments processor’s collapse on Thursday

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    ExplainerCompanies8 min
    Wirecard and the missing €1.9bn: my story

    'At times I thought I was going crazy.' Dan McCrum explains the twists and turns behind the massive fraud

  • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Wirecard collapses into insolvency

    Auditor EY says it found ‘clear indications of elaborate and sophisticated fraud’ at German payments company

  • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Wirecard: the timeline

    How the payments group became one of the hottest stocks in Europe while battling persistent allegations of fraud

  • Tuesday, 23 June, 2020
    FT InvestigationsInside Wirecard
    Ex-Wirecard chief Markus Braun arrested

    Regulators act to ringfence group’s bank as former head released from custody on €5m bail

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