Wirecard AG submitted an application to open insolvency proceedings to Munich district court on 25 June 2020. That is now more than a year ago. Since then, the payment service provider has been embroiled in a dramatic accounting scandal: former Wirecard managers allegedly manipulated the company’s accounts with fictitious transactions over a number of years. The resulting losses ran into billions of euros. One person who helped uncover the Wirecard scandal is the lawyer Pav Gill, who worked in Wirecard’s legal department in Singapore for around a year. In 2018 he left the company because his internal investigations into balance sheet manipulations and fictitious transactions were blocked. Gill then informed the Financial Times and other media of irregularities. In his interview with Dun & Bradstreet, he talks about how he experienced the uncovering of the balance sheet manipulation and the role he played.
