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May 19, 2021 · Pav Gill, who exposed one of Europe’s biggest corporate frauds, says doing the right thing ‘always has a cost’. Pav Gill was hired in September 2017 as Wirecard’s first in-house lawyer...
Pav Gill is a Singaporean lawyer who was the whistleblower that uncovered the Wirecard scandal, one of the largest corporate frauds in history. Gill was the former Singapore-based legal head for Wirecard's Asia-Pacific region.
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Dec 23, 2023 · Pav Gill had a choice: Resign or be fired. It was September 2018, and he had just spent a year as the Head of the Legal Department for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region at Wirecard, a payment processing company headquartered in Germany.
- Warning Signs
- The Phoenix Probe
- Reluctant Whistleblower
- Protecting Whistleblowers
- A Generational Shift and Lessons Learned
However, on Gill’s return to Singapore a few days later, he found that the Wirecard office had a rather more careless air. He began to question the company’s hiring practices and how it managed its regional finance department. Gill remembers that Edo Kurniawan, who ran Wirecard’s Asia-Pacific accounting and finance department, didn’t seem qualified...
With new evidence from the concerned person in the finance department, Gill approached Wirecard’s deputy general counsel, who suggested that they conduct an internal investigation using an external, independent law firm in Singapore, which was an expert in white-collar crimes. That way, Gill and others at the firm who wanted to do the right thing c...
The decision to become a whistleblower (or sentinel, as the ACFE calls it) is never easy. That step can change a person’s life forever as they travel on an often-dangerous path. Gill himself may have moved on in the hope of putting this unpleasant experience behind him. But ultimately those corrupt Wirecard executives forced his hand. After he left...
Gill, who still feels unprotected, says countries should have more regulations and bodies to keep whistleblowers out of harm’s way. Many First World financial hubs like Germany or Singapore simply lack effective whistleblower laws or have none at all, he says. Indeed, European countries are only just coordinating the passage of what is being called...
Gill says whistleblowers still carry a certain stigma. Many view blowing the whistle as a form of “snitching” and all its negative connotations. “In many countries, even as a kid in school, you are not expected to rat on a classmate to your tutors,” he says. “So, I think that kind of anti-exposé mindset is just ingrained.” Yet a generational shift ...
May 31, 2021 · Mr Pav Gill, seen here in a documentary on the Wirecard scandal produced by British-based Sky Studios, this month revealed his identity as the whistle-blower who exposed the German firm’s global...
Sep 5, 2023 · Mr Pav Gill, the former Singapore-based legal head for Wirecard’s Asia-Pacific region, is setting up whistle-blowing platform Confide, the 40 year-old told Bloomberg News by phone.
