Highly recommend this C4 Christo Grozev interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dqBmgXo2Uk
#bellingcat #putin #janmarsalek #wirecard #opensourcejournalism
Highly recommend this C4 Christo Grozev interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dqBmgXo2Uk
#bellingcat #putin #janmarsalek #wirecard #opensourcejournalism
Huge article on #Wirecard CFO who is now confirmed to be running spies for #Russia within Europe.
* Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/07/marsalek-russian-spymaster-wirecard/
* No paywall: https://archive.md/H7lTL
Wirecard collapsed and then #crypto began to rise within under a year... which I'm sure is just totally a coincidence.
#BBCNews - Russian spies surveilled Ukrainian troops at US base, trial hears
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ldnzj85x9o
#Marsalek #JanMarsalek
Österreichs Verfassungsschutz-Affäre geht weiter: Ex-BVT-Agent Egisto Ott wurde festgenommen.
Gegen ihn wird seit Jahren ermittelt, er soll geheimdienstliche Daten an ein Netzwerk rund um Jan Marsalek verkauft haben. Der damalige Wirecard-Vorstand Marsalek wiederum hatte Kontakte zu russischen Nachrichtendienstlern.
@hanse_mina
@randahl
@anderspuck
I think the message is between the lines: a warning to #olafscholz .
The name of former #wirecard executive and GRU-affiliate #JanMarsalek has been kicking around in the media these days.
The second skeleton in Scholz's closet is the #CumEx affair, on which Russia most likely has an interesting dossier, too.
@chrisstoecker Irgendwie muss #Chrupalla doch für die Zeit nachdem die #AfD aus den Parlamenten verschwunden ist vorsorgen. Und Putin ist ein gut zahlender Arbeitgeber. Er mach sich gut an der Seite von #JanMarsalek
Ex-Wirecard-Manager Jan Marsalek hat im September 2020 die Tarnidentität eines russisch-orthodoxen Priesters mit dem Namen Konstantin Bajazow angenommen.
Darüber und über Marsaleks jahrelange Spionage für Russland berichten ZDF Frontal, Der Standard, Spiegel und The Insider:
Soon after payment giant #Wirecard reported in June 2020 that nearly $2B was missing from its balance sheet, #COO #JanMarsalek boarded private jet out of Austria. After landing in #Belarus, he was whisked by car to #Moscow, where he got a #Russian passport under assumed name. Western intelligence and security officials now say they have reached the unsettling conclusion that Marsalek had likely been a Russian agent for nearly a decade
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/hes-wanted-for-wirecards-missing-2-billion-hes-now-suspected-of-being-a-russian-spy-61d79ee2
UnPayWalled https://archive.ph/VcjgZ
Wirecard: Lebenszeichen von Jan Marsalek
Österreicher-Connection bei Wirecard: Der flüchtige Jan Marsalek schreibt an das Landgericht München. Ein Versuch, den Prozess aus der Ferne zu beeinflussen.
Wirecard-Prozess: "Wer soll denn das Geld sonst haben? Kim Jong-Il vielleicht?"
KPMG sollte 2019 Bilanzen von Wirecard unter die Lupe nehmen. Jetzt schildern die Wirtschaftsprüfer im Prozess, wann die "Alarmglocken" angingen.
"'This is a vital piece of information,' said @thomas_riegler, an Austrian historian of intelligence who found the document during his research […]. 'It sheds new light on #JanMarsalek and indicates that his obvious fascination with intelligence stems from his family history.'"
"A document from Sept. 1956 […] says there are grounds to suspect that he was responsible for helping the Soviets kidnap at least four people and illegally render them back to Moscow for torture, interrogatio and imprisonment. Among them was an American intelligence agent."
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RT @timgrecco
#Wirecard fraudster #JanMarsalek’s grandfather was suspected Russian spy.
"Austrian authorities linked anti-Nazi fighter Hans Marsalek with kidn…
https://twitter.com/timgrecco/status/1637801354033786880
#Wirecard fraudster #JanMarsalek’s grandfather was suspected Russian spy.
"Austrian authorities linked anti-Nazi fighter Hans Marsalek with kidnap and torture of four people in postwar era."
via @FT
https://www.ft.com/content/ebbc0fab-9969-493a-815c-782085ca1651