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Welcome to The Wirecard Saga, one of the leading sources on all things Wirecard. In this series, Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors takes a look at the biggest financial scandal in post-war Germany from a variety of angles.  In this ‘Gambler’s Paradise’ Episode, she continues her exploration of those persons, entities and governments who have been damaged, some beyond repair, by Wirecard and the nuclear fallout from its scandal. Some of the highlights include:  

• BaFin Criminal Conduct?
• Blackened Pages
• Useful Idiot
• Marsalek Was Used
• Those That Do, Don’t Talk
• Putin is a Favorite
• Meeting with US DOJ
• Virtual Solutions
• Dodgy Digid Deals
• Trusted Advisor to Timchenko
• Superpower of Crime
• Opportunity Knocks
• Chernaya Kassa
• Firtash & Mogilevich
• Influencers in the Near East
• Rostec, Skytec, we all love tech

Welcome to The Wirecard Saga. In this series, I am joined by Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors.  In this Conjunction Junction Episode, we continue our exploration of those persons, entities and governments who have been damaged, some beyond repair, by Wirecard and the nuclear fallout from its scandal. Some of the highlights include:

• Russia Tweets About Marsalek
• Weigand and Akhavan Convicted in U.S.
• Tracking Pixels
• Fuchs Says Akhavan and Marsalek Besties
• Oliver Hargreaves Wired For Sound
• OneCoin Connection
• He Works Hard For the Money
• Paolucci Key Contact
• Top Dog Shares Run With Wirecard
• Kurz Flies Air Firtash
• IT Repair Guy Does Read Your Texts
• O’Sullivan Becomes Frau Muller With EY Blessing
• Data Overload at IC
• Elizabeth Has A Bad Day In the Office
• Chief Prosecutor Doesn’t Want High Penalties

Welcome to The Wirecard Saga. In this series, I am joined by Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors.  In this ‘No Laughing Matter’ Episode, we continue our exploration of those persons, entities and governments who have been damaged, some beyond repair, by Wirecard and the nuclear fallout from its scandal. Some of the highlights include:

• Braun’s Innsbruck Villa Geographically Desirable
• Deadbeat Friends
• Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
• Schutz Auf Wiedersehen
• Lucrative Consulting Contracts
• von Erffa: Nothing Out of the Ordinary
• Mildly Mediocre
• EY: We’re All Victims Here
• 2016 Documents Show What EY Really Knew
• COVID Relief for Wirecard
• Hessenthaler Shipped Back to Vienna
• Schellenbacher Pleads Out
• A Day in English Court
• An Apology Wouldn’t Go Amiss

Welcome to The Wirecard Saga. In this series, I am joined by Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors. In this episode which is Part 2 of Episode 20, we continue our exploration of those persons, entities and governments who have been damaged, some beyond repair, by Wirecard and the nuclear fallout from its scandal. Some of the highlights include:

• Hessenthaler Makes Connections
• Ibiza, Wirecard and Casino Scandals Come Together
• Novomatic, FPO and OVP Scratch Backs
• Text Messages Tell All
• ORFG Senators Share Secrets
• Former Stasi Officer Joins the Party
• The Fight for CASAG
• GRECO Gives Thumbs Down

Welcome to the latest edition to the Compliance Podcast Network, The Wirecard Saga. In this series, I am joined by Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors.  In this episode which is Part 1 of Episode 20, we explore those persons, entities and governments who have been damaged, some beyond repair, by Wirecard and the nuclear fallout from its scandal. Some of the highlights include:

• EY Germany Hires Former Finance Minister
• FREP’s Ernst Saunters Into the Sunset
• Deutsche Bank BD to Wirecard in Asia
• A Checkbox Approach
• Economically Unsightly Loans From Wirecard Bank
• PEPs R Us
• Quadir Suffered Wirecard Blows
• Mountains of Data Moved to Russia
• Marsalek Adds Procurement Corruption to His Portfolio

Welcome to the latest edition to the Compliance Podcast Network, The Wirecard Saga. In this series, I am joined by Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors.  In this episode, we take a deep dive into the gaps in compliance in not simply Wirecard but in those entities which facilitated Wirecard or did business with Wirecard. Some of the highlights include:

• IC Loses Confidence in Regulators
• Stock Exchange Shrugs
• FREP Head: Rules Don’t Apply To Me
• HÜSt Shocked
• BaFin Economical With the Truth
• Feeble Efforts
• von Knoop’s Social Life in Ruins
• Weiss Sings Like Canary
• Marsalek’s Confidence Trick
• Austria Spies on German MPs
• Schmidbauer Consults
• Novomatic

Welcome to the latest edition to the Compliance Podcast Network, The Wirecard Saga. In this series, I am joined by Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors.  In this episode, we take a deep dive into the gaps in compliance in not simply Wirecard but in those entities which facilitated Wirecard or did business with Wirecard.
Some of the highlights include:

• Hufeld Heaved Aside
• BaFin Day Traders
• Fact Finding Scheutz
• Top Officer Lobbies
• Nobody Knows Us
• Bavarian State Officials
• Guttenberg Resurfaces
• Augustus Intelligence
• BKLA Holds AML Chat
• Cash On the Move
• Supervision Totally Inadequate
• Banking Firtash
• Corporatocracy

Welcome to the latest edition to the Compliance Podcast Network, The Wirecard Saga. In this series, I am joined by Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors.  In this episode, we take a deep dive into the government officials ensnared in the Wirecard scandal, Wirecard nexus to the MNC scandal and more dodgy deals. All this and much more in the Family Tree edition.
Some of the highlights include:

• Short Sellers Strike Again
• Wirecard Nexus to MNC Scandal
• BR Shetty’s Empire Falls
• Finablr Enables Dirty Deals
• Muddy Waters Alleges EY Too Cozy
• India & UAE Wirecard Execs Like Unimoni
• Knoechelmann and Partners Share Everything
• DPO, Acona, Wirecard and Apis Co-Mingle
• DPO Goes Shopping
• Network International Buys Into the Action
• More Dodgy Deals In India
• All Roads Lead to Singapore

Welcome to the latest edition to the Compliance Podcast Network, The Wirecard Saga. In this series, I am joined by Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors.  In this episode, we take a deep dive into the former government officials who became Wirecard lobbyists, Wirecard goes big in China as Merkel whispers and then stumbles. All this and much more in the Go Big or Go Home edition.
Some of the highlights include:

• Current event wrap up;
• Investigative Committee grills top government officials;
• Former Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg Don’t-call-me-a-lobbyist, who is BFF with Wirecard BD Georg von Waldenfels; holds private chit-chats with Merkel;
• Wirecard seeks access to China and the Chancellor whispers in Xi’s ear;
• All AllScore, All the Time;
• Big Trouble in Little China;
• Papageorgieu counsels no assistance but then the Ministry of Finance weighs in;
• Merkel and her government stumble; and
• Former minister Klaus-Dieter Fritsche is a consultant too.