The single most important hard drive in the Wirecard fraud, the one that eventually brought down Europe’s most valuable fintech, was nearly destroyed by a mother who had no legal training, no finance background, and no idea what an offshore escrow account was. She just knew her son was being followed in Singapore, and she knew the documents on his laptop were the only thing keeping him alive.
Her name is Sokhbir Kaur. Her son is Pavandeep Gill, known as Pav, then a junior in-house lawyer at Wirecard’s Asia-Pacific headquarters. In early 2018, when Wirecard’s Munich leadership shut down his internal investigation and pushed him out of the company, it was Sokhbir who copied the files, kept them when Pav wanted to walk away, and eventually picked up the phone to the Financial Times.
Without that phone call, Jan Marsalek is probably still the chief operating officer of a DAX 30 company. Markus Braun is probably still a billionaire. And 1.9bn that never existed is probably still being audited as if it did.
Pav Gill joined Wirecard’s Singapore office in the mid-2010s as a legal counsel for the Asia-Pacific region. The job looked like a clean upward step. A fast-growing German fintech, a regional headquarters in Suntec, the kind of role that builds a career.
Within months, he was reading internal emails that described what looked like round-tripped revenue, forged contracts and money moving through third-party acquirers in Dubai, Manila and...
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