The book toggles between two stories: what was actually happening with Wirecard at the time, and the parallel investigation being undertaken by McCrum and the FT. In this sense, McCrum does a great job of walking you through all of that if Wirecard is a completely new name to you too. As the bread and wine made their ‘rounds, Grandfather prepared himself quietly before offering grace. Being near him was like being seated next to a great mountain, with some mystery hidden on its heights, or some depth to him I couldn’t grasp. Leo Perry of Ennismore Fund Management tells McCrum: “'Faking profits, you end up with a problem of fake cash.

FT Alphaville founder Paul Murphy entering into a clandestine meeting with Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek, desperately texting his backup team after the rendezvous is moved to a different restaurant at the last minute, is one of those moments.Money Money Men’ explains everything - seven years of complex, gripping journalism, creating a thrilling, head-spinning book entailing billion dollar fraud, fake offices, fake bank accounts, and some characters shadier than an Etch A Sketch. I had worked for years to become a Barrister, and I had never in a million years wanted to work in the rag trade. I can't help comparing Money Men to Bad Blood, the story of the Theranos scandal by Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou. The next day I was in the poorest area in London, sitting at dad’s desk in an office under a railway arch.

I would become someone so different from the person who entered the legal profession with such high ideals that, eventually, I would hardly recognize myself. This book details the lengths to which people within the company Wire card went to hide evidence of fraud, and the efforts of one journalist to uncover it. We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. Also that this Friday night tradition was an event which confirmed our roots and our unity as family. Those fake asset purchases proliferated faster than rabbits, but to uncover the fraud meant knocking on doors in places like India, Singapore, and the Philippines – places with obscure address systems and people suspicious of foreigners looking under rocks.Detailing the enabling role of Deutsche Bank and SoftBank, McCrum exclaims in frustration: “How many times does a company need to be accused of fraud for those overseeing it to start playing detective? Helpfully, there is quite literally a cast of characters that McCrum prefaces the book with, laying out the many spies, short-sellers and ‘bandits’ involved. In 2014, one of those short-sellers, Leo Perry, alerted McCrum that Wirecard had been committing a very well-documented accounting fraud through a series of odd acquisitions in Asia.

In a short period of time, the business my father had worked to build his whole life would collapse and my parents would be ruined. You hit publish, then you almost throw up,” says Paul Murphy, a Financial Times colleague of Dan McCrum, at a crucial stage in their investigation of Wirecard.It was too early for me to have worldly knowledge, but I knew instinctively that he was the kind of man that every man should be. I so badly wanted to make my mark in the world by levelling the legal playing field for those who needed justice. One of the questions the Wirecard scandal leaves open is why market participants blindly rationalized what Perry long considered to be obvious evidence of wrongdoing. From the dining room came the sound of talking and laughter, but I was not ready to see the whole family yet.