The €1.9 Billion That Never Existed — Europe’s Biggest Fintech Fraud

Описание: A €1.9 billion cash balance. One problem: it never existed.

Wirecard was once celebrated as Europe's fintech champion, a fast-growing payments company worth billions and included in Germany's prestigious DAX index. Investors loved it. Regulators defended it. Critics were attacked.

But behind the success story was one of the biggest corporate frauds in modern European history.

In this documentary, we uncover how Financial Times journalist Dan McCrum spent years investigating Wirecard's suspicious accounting practices while regulators and powerful institutions targeted the messengers instead of the company itself.

You'll learn how fake revenues, questionable third-party partners, missing cash balances, and regulatory failures allowed the fraud to continue for years until €1.9 billion supposedly held in Philippine bank accounts was revealed to be completely fictional.

We also explore the mysterious disappearance of former COO Jan Marsalek, who allegedly escaped Europe and remains one of the world's most wanted fugitives.

#wirecard #financialfraud #corporatefraud #fintech #JanMarsalek #DanMcCrum #businessdocumentary #Scandal #finance #investing