Still, lacking any trace of Jan Marsalek. The former Wirecard Board member, against whom an arrest warrant is present, for a good two weeks on the run. The Manager is deeply involved in the accounting scandals of the Munich Dax group, good contacts in the intelligence scene, is speculated for a long time. How good you are, and to whom the 40-year-old Austrian, in a relationship, a media report provides some hints.
Henning Peitsmeier
economic correspondent in Munich.
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So Marsalek should have a middle-man-secret information from the Austrian Federal office for the protection of the Constitution (BVT) and the Ministry of the interior of the right-wing populist FPÖ passed, it means in the daily newspaper “die Presse”. Proof of the SMS should be chat logs between the former FPÖ politician Johann Gudenus and its Familiar Florian s.
The Information about Marsalek extends in a different scandal: the so-called “Ibiza affair” had Gudenus, and the then Austrian FPÖ Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache signaled their readiness to illegal party financing, and the covert Acquisition of control of a party independent of the media.
Brag with a nerve toxin
In the course of this investigation, the cell phone had been seized by Gudenus, on the the question of text messages with the interlocutor, “Jan” are stored. It should be Jan Marsalek. The information revealed Marsalek, allegedly, far, fueled, according to “press” the distrust of the FPÖ against the former coalition partners, the ÖVP and to the scandal of the Federal Agency for state protection and counter terrorism (BAT) triggered. Officials there are, among other things, suspected of the South Korean secret agent in North Korean passport to have blanks to be procured. The Austrian Ministry of the interior announced that the allegations against Marsalek pursue, but that Marsalek was under his real name as the Informant worked.
The British “Financial Times”, the early reports on possible accounting fraud of the Dax group, writes that Marsalek with secret documents, bragged to his partners. Including the secret formula of Nowitschok, the nerve poison that was used in the attempted murder of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal was apparently.
Marsalek was with Wirecard for the Asia business. Three weeks ago, the Wirecard had to admit Board, that firms exist, funds to over 1.9 billion euros, were recorded on Asian fiduciary accounts, probably not. Shortly thereafter, the group filed for insolvency. While the Chairman of the Board Markus Braun of the judiciary and against a Deposit of 5 million euros from custody was re-released, is Marsalek non-volatile memory. Its track was lost in the Philippines. However, the data that the Mars Aleks to entry and exit at the end of June document were fake, apparently. The Philippine justice Minister claims.
