💰 In two thousand twenty, a German payments company admitted that two billion dollars it claimed to hold simply did not exist. The collapse ruined pension funds and exposed a fraud that fooled the most respected auditors in the world. This is the full story of Wirecard.
We trace the money from Munich to Manila, from the German stock exchange to obscure Philippine trustee companies. We meet Markus Braun, the chief executive who became Europe's most famous fraud defendant. We follow Jan Marsalek, the chief operating officer who vanished into Russian intelligence protection and remains a fugitive. We hear from Pav Gill, the Singapore accountant who risked everything to blow the whistle.
This is a case study in how complexity becomes a weapon, how regulators fall behind the people they regulate, and how ordinary savers pay the price for greed. The trial continues seven years after the collapse. The money remains unaccounted for. Lessons remain urgent.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 — Cold Open
03:30 — The Company That Looked Perfect
12:00 — The First Doubters
22:00 — The Whistleblower
33:00 — The Audit That Cracked
44:00 — The House of Paper
56:00 — The Fugitive
1:04:00 — The Collapse
1:08:00 — Munich Trial Six Years Later
1:18:00 — The Ghost Who Walks
1:28:00 — The Auditors Who Failed
1:38:00 — The Rotation of Fraud
1:48:00 — The Parting
📌 Wirecard scandal, Markus Braun, financial fraud, white-collar crime, accounting failure, regulatory capture, Jan Marsalek fugitive, German fintech.
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