Executive at fraudulent German financial services company led a double life
Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek was recruited by Russian intelligence at a meeting on a yacht in July 2014, sparking a decade-long association with the country’s security services, according to new reports that have sparked calls for a German special investigator. An investigation by The Insider, Spiegel, ZDF and the Austrian Standard found Marsalek’s entanglement with the GRU, Russia’s notorious military intelligence service, long predated Wirecard’s June 2020 collapse.
While the extent of Marsalek’s spying activities remains unknown, he used contacts in Austrian intelligence to investigate people likely to be of interest to the Russian state, while Wirecard also provided some payment services to German security services.