I'm still following the news about Jan Marsalek, the Wirecard fraud crook. Recently some new articles were published in Germany:
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wir...er-schatten-des-jan-marsalek-teil-2-li.359869
On June 16, 2020, the financial supervisory authority informed the public prosecutor's office that
alleged bank documents concerning the existence of 1.9 billion euros in credit balances in escrow accounts in the Philippines had been falsified, after the special auditors from KPMG had already found fault with the fact that the existence of the credit balances
and thus one third of the balance sheet total of Wirecard could not be proven. ... Prosecutors even waited to issue an international arrest warrant until Marsalek failed to show up for an appointment in Munich arranged
with his lawyer, who assured that Marsalek wanted to "look for" the money in the Philippines. ... The Wirecard scandal and the figure of Jan Marsalek may appear to be a complicated criminal case. But at its core it is quite simple: The claim that the German security authorities did not even know who Marsalek was must be chalked up as a lie. And if security authorities lied to the investigative committee of the German Federal Parliament, there must be important reasons for this. One thing is certain:
there is obviously no interest in Jan Marsalek returning to Germany and testifying. For he is guarding many dark secrets.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wir...er-schatten-des-jan-marsalek-teil-1-li.359251
He is on Interpol's wanted list and was featured on " File XY... Unsolved" on the German TV channel ZDF. At Munich airport, his wanted poster was hanging right next to the passport control.
Politicians and security authorities are performing the feat of feverishly searching for a man they definitely do not want back in Germany: Jan Marsalek, the former chief operating officer and Asia board member of payment services provider Wirecard AG, who left Germany unchallenged on June 19, 2020, in the wake of Wirecard's billion-dollar bankruptcy three years ago. ... That Marsalek and Wirecard had numerous connections to people in the intelligence world is documented. A few examples: ...
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) used credit cards from Wirecard. On one occasion, Marsalek requested all of Wirecard's customer data on the grounds that the BND wanted to use it. However, the BND denied that there had been any such request. ... The German government's former intelligence coordinator, Klaus-Dieter Fritsche (CSU), advised Wirecard and the former Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BVT) during the BVT scandal surrounding Russian influence on the Austrian intelligence service, with the approval of the Chancellor's Office.
Two key figures in that scandal, Austrian agents Martin W. and Egisto O., were closely associated with Marsalek. W. even had an office in Marsalek's villa, and both were accused by prosecutors of helping Marsalek escape.
Then Donald Trump came to power.
Jan Marsalek sought help from a former CIA official who was close to Trump. The investigations against Wirecard were dropped in an intensive dialogue with US authorities, and Wirecard was even awarded the prepaid card business of the USA's CitiGo a short time later, enabling the cards to be topped up with large sums of money.
Prepaid cards are considered a central tool of organized crime for concealing money flows.
https://financefwd.com/de/drei-jahre-wirecard-de-masi/
https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/ne...tin-hat-die-bundesregierung-in-der-hand-.html
Two years ago, the Wirecard Group imploded. The former CEO is in custody, his board colleague is on the run.
What did the current chancellor know? ... Ex-Asia board member Jan Marsalek was already on the run.
Since then, he has been wanted internationally, is said to have good connections to Russia and is probably staying in the country. This means that one of the most important people for decoding the Wirecard scandal is probably in Putin's hands - and Putin will try to play this trump card, as experts suspect. Also with a view to the German government (see penultimate section).
As the newspaper "Bild" wrote at the beginning of April,
Marsalek is said to have gone into hiding in Moscow and to have lived only a few kilometers away from the Kremlin - and possibly still lives there today. The Austrian is also said to be under the "care" of the Russian domestic intelligence service FSB. German authorities are said to have been aware of this since 2021. According to Bild,
the FSB is said to have offered the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) a meeting and an interview with Marsalek.
The BND headquarters in Berlin had been informed of the offer, but did not respond to the request, according to the report. The Chancellor's Office was also said to have been informed about the explosive offer of talks.
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German security authorities let Marsalek walk out with the help of Austrian ex-agents, even though he publicly waved secret documents on the Skripal attack, for example." In fact, Marsalek's escape was probably meticulously prepared. According to a report in Der Spiegel,
Marsalek is said to have made his way to Russia via Belarus on the very day of his release, June 18; while still a Wirecard board member, he boasted of his connections to intelligence agents.