In this special podcast series, I am joined by Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity at Affiliated Monitors. Mikhail’s areas of expertise include technology, privacy, cybersecurity, IP and accountability in artificial intelligence; the global anti-corruption and anti-money laundering regimes; media & entertainment; biotech and the life sciences; the public sector and international law. She is accustomed to working on extremely sensitive and high-profile matters, both nationally and internationally. In this episode, we take up the issue of fraud in the Wirecard saga.

Some of the highlights include:
·       Did Wirecard ever make money?
·       Was Wirecard even designed to make money?
·       Was it simply a Ponzi scheme??
·       Why BCCI and not Enron was Wirecard’s role model?
·       How could BaFin employees oversee Wirecard while investing in it? (Ans: they couldn’t)
·       What is Round-Tripping fraud and how did Wirecard master it?