Money men : a hot start-up, a billion-dollar fraud, a fight for the truth
Edition
Penguin paperback edition.
Publication Information
London : Penguin Books, 2023.
Physical Description
xii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Summary
"When journalist Dan McCrum followed a tip to investigate a hot new fintech company everything about Wirecard looked a little too good to be true. In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market. As McCrum began to dig deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more compelling than he could have imagined: a world of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. It wasn't long until he realized his adversaries would stop at nothing to take down his investigation. 'Money Men' is the astonishing inside story of a multi-billion-dollar fraud hiding in plain sight. Uncovering fake bank accounts, fake offices and possibly even a fake death, McCrum offers a searing exposé that will finally lay bare the truth."--
Notes
Includes index.
First published in UK by Bantam Press, 2022.
Contents
- Smoke in the office
- The ponzi guy
- Bloody knuckles
- Fake trees
- Who is Jan Marsalek?
- The entertainment business
- Friends like these
- Ghosts in Manama
- That's all bullshit
- On the make in India
- Rabble and strife
- The facades shake
- A rush of blood
- Friend or foe?
- Freaking out
- Black truffles
- Defenestrated
- The reluctant whistleblower
- Notes from the bunker
- Manipulated
- Bearing witness
- Manila envelope
- SoftBank to the rescue
- Empty chairs and empty tables
- Gold-plated
- Caught in the trap
- Attack and retreat
- Exocet
- Chasing the joker
- Tradecraft
- Closing the border
- Police escort
- Desperate punches
- Show me the money.