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Dan McCrum ist a financial journalist of the Financial Times.

Together with Stefania Palma he was involved in uncovering the Wirecard accounting scandal and is considered to be the key person who brought Wirecard down. Due to his research on Wirecard, he was threatened and defamed by Wirecard. In 2019, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bafin) filed charges not against Wirecard for fraud, but against McCrum on suspicion of stock manipulation. The public prosecutor's office later discontinued the investigation against the journalist.

In total, Dan McCrum researched the Wirecard case for over 6 years in his "House of Wirecards" series. In the Netflix documentary "Scandal! The fall of Wirecard", the background to the Wirecard scandal as well as the work and impact of Dan McCrum and short-sellers are illuminated, who also have their say in interviews.


 * Dan McCrum: House of Wirecard. Wie ich den größten Wirtschaftsbetrug Deutschlands aufdeckte und einen DAX-Konzern zu Fall brachte. Econ, Berlin 2022, ISBN 978-3-430-21064-5.


 * Dan McCrum at the Financial Times
 * Dan McCrum at Twitter