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Upstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud. Watch trailers & learn more.
- What Was Wirecard?
- Red Flags
- Where Is Braun Now?
Wirecard started off in 1999 in Munich, and in 2002, Marcus Braun, a former KPMG consultant, was brought on as CEO. At this point, the company focused on providing online payment services for companies that other more traditional financial institutions might turn down, such as porn or gambling sites. By 2005, Wirecard had merged with Electronic Bus...
Red flags first went up in 2008, when the head of a German shareholder association noticed financial irregularities on the balance sheet and EY was brought in to monitor the company’s accounts. Still, on Wirecard continued, operating now in English and establishing a global expansion. After raising €500m from investors it did just that: purchasing ...
In March 2022, Munich public prosecutors charged Braun with fraud, breach of trust and accounting manipulation, and he is currently awaiting his trial. Braun pleads not guilty to these charges and claims that he too is a victim of fraud. Meanwhile, Former Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek disappeared shortly after he was fired from the company and is curre...
Sep 16, 2022 · Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard: Directed by James Erskine. With Florian Toncar, Lena Kampf, Martin Osterloh, Cansel Kiziltepe. Upstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud.
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Sep 15, 2022 · Netflix documentary captures all the improbable twists in the rise and fall of the German online payments giant. FT reporter Dan McCrum in ‘Skandal: Bringing Down Wirecard’.
SKANDAL! Bringing Down Wirecard is now streaming globally on Netflix and tells the story of one of the biggest accounting frauds of the 21st century.
A documentary thriller on one of the biggest ever financial crimes. In a world exclusive, Financial Times Journalist, Dan McCrum, reveals the inside story of his 6 year investigation into the...
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Sep 6, 2022 · Bringing Down Wirecard will be available to stream globally from Friday 16 September. The documentary film (1x90’) shows how payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its...
