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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon Hunt

‘I kept a hammer under the bed’ - one journalist’s 6-year battle with Wirecard

Dan McCrum and editor Paul Murphy trawled through hundreds of documents leaked by insiders while entertaining Wirecard execs at secret meetings in posh Mayfair hotels.

(Picture: Charlie Bibby / FT)

Journalist Dan McCrum’s life was turned upside down on a trip to Caffe Nero by Mansion House tube in 2014.

“I walked in and this hedge fund manager Leo Perry was sitting there,” McCrum said.

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