1. Dan McCrum is best known for his investigation into the Wirecard scandal between 2014 and 2020.
10 Facts About Dan McCrum
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Dan McCrum read economics and politics at Durham University, graduating in 2001.
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Dan McCrum then worked at Citigroup as part of its equity research department.
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Dan McCrum began writing for the Investors Chronicle in 2006, and joined the Financial Times in 2007 as a reporter.
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In summer 2014, Dan McCrum received a tip from hedge fund manager John Hempton on potential fraud at Wirecard, a German financial services firm.
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In 2018, Dan McCrum received 70 GBs of leaked email correspondence from a former Wirecard lawyer.
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Dan McCrum testified before a German parliamentary committee regarding the scandal in 2020.
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Dan McCrum was later named Journalist of the Year in 2020 by the Press Gazette for his role in the Wirecard investigation.
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Dan McCrum received the 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for his Wildcard articles.
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Dan McCrum published his accounts of the investigation as a book in 2022, and the investigation was subject to a documentary at Netflix.