Dan McCrum

Dan McCrum (born 1978/1979) is an English journalist who is an investigative journalist for the Financial Times, having joined the newspaper in 2007. He is best known for his investigation into the Wirecard scandal between 2014 and 2020. McCrum's 2022 book on the scandal Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth was adapted by Netflix as the documentary called Skandal!.

Career According to McCrum's personal website, he had worked as a paperboy at a newsagent's shop owned by his family, and lives with them in St Albans.

McCrum read economics and politics at Durham University (University College), graduating in 2001. He then worked at Citigroup as part of its equity research department. He began writing for the Investors Chronicle in 2006, and joined the Financial Times in 2007 as a reporter. Early in his Financial Times career, McCrum covered the 2008 financial crisis and the Madoff investment scandal from New York as the paper's US investment correspondent. In 2011, he joined the FT Alphaville team, writing for the commentary until 2015. Following an investigation, McCrum noticed a number of acquisitions of obscure Asian firms by Wirecard. After a trip to Manama, Bahrain found an apparent local client of Wirecard to be bogus, McCrum brought his findings back to Alphaville. His initial findings were published in 2015. In response to the publication, Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek arranged several meetings with Alphaville founder Paul Murphy, attempting to persuade Murphy to prevent further investigation into Wirecard. In the following year, as auditors scrutinised the company, the scale of the fraud became public and Wirecard declared bankruptcy in 2020. According to later German investigators, it was the largest case of financial fraud in the country's history. McCrum also testified before a German parliamentary committee regarding the scandal in 2020. The investigation into McCrum and Palma was dropped in September 2020. He received the 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News and Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative for his Wirecard articles. He published his accounts of the investigation as a book in 2022, and the investigation was subject to a documentary at Netflix. Greek firm Folli Follie