In the Episode, 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 continue our multipart series on the Wirecard accounting fraud. Today, 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?