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Hello! Finally, I have prepared a new topic for you - HOW A RUSSIAN SPY STOLE TWO BILLION EUROS AND DISAPPEARED. This is the story of the incredible escape of Austrian Jan Marsalek, how he stole two billion euros and destroyed the Wirecard company. Was he a Russian spy? Where are the billions now? And the main question - where is Jan Marsalek?
Contents:
June 19, 2020. Austria. Early in the evening, a taxi is speeding from Vienna to Föss-Lau Airport. The journey usually takes only 35 minutes, but the taxi driver does not know the way and misses the entrance to the airport. The airport is very small. A tower, a few hangars and a restaurant. Since midday, a small plane has been waiting there, ready for takeoff. A Cessna Citation Mustang model 510, but the passenger is late.
Finally, at 7.45 p.m., a taxi arrives. A well-dressed man gets out of the car. He pays 7,920 euros in cash for the flight. The plane takes off at 8 p.m. The mysterious traveler is a man with many identities. A huge number of false passports and close contacts with foreign intelligence services. He is involved in dubious deals, likes to play spies and agents and enjoys a luxurious life.
He is also a key figure in Europe's biggest economic scandal. Since that evening at Föss-Lau airport, he has been on the run.
Chapter I. ESCAPE.
Wirecard was founded in 1999. The company was long considered Germany’s answer to Silicon Valley – a tech corporation for online payments. A German PayPal, so to speak, but for companies. At first, it accepted payments mainly for porn sites and gambling establishments, but customers quickly became more serious. Over the next few years, Wirecard experienced incredible growth. In 2018, the company became larger than Deutsche Bank.
Dan McCrum was the first to discover a discrepancy in Wirecard’s numbers. Together with his team, he launched a fraud investigation. On June 18, auditors from EY confirmed that Wirecard had lost €1.9 billion in revenue – money that should actually have been in accounts in Asia.
The very next day, June 19, Markus Braun resigned as CEO. A few days later, on June 22, Wirecard claimed that it was highly likely that the missing €1.9 billion no longer existed. On June 25, the company filed for bankruptcy, and thus the inglorious and unexpected end of Wirecard's history. In fact, all these problems could easily have been avoided.
Markus Braun has been arrested and charged with misrepresentation, market manipulation, breach of trust and fraud against commercial gangs totaling billions, but prosecutors are not the only ones issuing an arrest warrant. The second, alleged main culprit is Austrian Jan Marsalek, a member of Wirecard's board of directors largely responsible for the Asian business. The large-scale trial in this case has been ongoing since December 2022.
In addition to former CEO Markus Braun, former chief accountant Stefan von Erfa and key witness Oliver Bellinghaus are also in the dock. All men are presumptively innocent. However, the trial is taking place without Marsalek, who has been missing for almost four years. Marsalek is fired on the same day that EY reveals its accounting problems.
Nevertheless, Braun asks him to go to the Philippines. There, he is supposed to find out where 1.9 billion euros have gone. On June 23, 2020, he lands at Manila Airport in the Philippines. A day later, he travels 800 kilometers to Cebu City and from there, he goes to China. At least that’s what the Philippine immigration documents say, but something is clearly wrong.
Jan Marsalek is not visible on airport CCTV when he enters the country. There are also no flights to China on the supposed day of departure. Apparently, the immigration officials falsified the data. They were subsequently charged, but the question remains the same. WHERE IS MARSALIK REALLY? On the evening of June 18, the day he was fired, Marsalik goes to the Munich restaurant Ilsonio.
There he meets two trusted men from Austria. The first is Martin Weiss, a former agent of the internal intelligence service. The second is Thomas Schellenbacher, a member of parliament from the right-wing populist party FPIO. Marsalik tells them both that he urgently needs to go to the Philippines to sort out a balance problem with his Aerokart. He wants to fly via Minsk, Belarus. Marsalik gives them his passport so that they can book a ticket for him. The next day at 11.56 a.m., an e-mail arrives at Minsk airport.
The sender is an employee of the Minsk travel agency Planeta Grez. It is about VIP entry for a special guest from Vienna. Attached to the letter is a diplomatic passport of the Caribbean state of Grenada. On June 19, 2020, at 8 p.m., a small plane with Jan Marsalik on board takes off and flies towards Belarus. Three hours later, the plane lands in Minsk. Marsalik shows his real passport at passport control at the airport. A
black Mercedes minibus with Belarusian license plates is already waiting for him. He is taken to the Hampton Hotel on Tolstoy Street in Minsk. The Minsk authorities do not know whether Marsalik left Belarus or where he might be. By the time the prosecutor's office starts looking for him, Jan Marsalik is several days ahead of them. They conduct a search of one of his villas in Munich. What they find there raises even more questions.
Chapter II. THE MANY-FACED.
Before his escape, Marsalik spent most of his time here, at 61 Prince Regington Strasse, a luxury villa and something of a private club for Marsalik, his business partners and close friends. It has a high-end CCTV system and a bug-proof room planned, and no one lives here.
The building was used in part as an office, for example by Martin Weiss, the former Austrian intelligence agent who helped Marsalek escape, but the house is also used by former soldiers, agents and money launderers for their meetings. They sit among Italian designer furniture, expensive oil paintings and discuss business. Sometimes they also visit fine restaurants. For business, they go to Feinhost Kefer, for private life - to Matsuhisi in Munich.
Investigators find many expensive paintings and sculptures in the villa. Marsalek even had a statue of Vladimir Putin on his desk. A black combat uniform was also found. Marsalek apparently used this uniform in Palmyra, Syria in 2017, shortly after the area was liberated from ISIS by Syrian troops. Russia supported the Syrian troops during the liberation.
Marsalek probably wanted to experience what no one else had - just to be in an active zone.
When he gets there, he shows the Russian soldiers the clothes he bought with him. He has, like, a super-Kevlar helmet, some kind of helmet, which has a bulletproof suit inside. The soldiers will tell him that this is a very good thing that he bought with him. But if you go for a walk wearing this helmet, every sniper in the area will think that you are number one in the VIP, and they will kill you. So he leaves all this at the hotel.
Do you agree that all this does not quite fit with the position of the COO of a German company? Many questions arise, what is the story behind this villa? Why do so many shady characters meet there? The investigators understand that the search for Marsalek will be much more difficult than they initially thought. They are dealing with a man who was ready to disappear at any moment. Marsalek is said to have connections in various secret services.
He liked to surround himself with current and former agents and spies. He himself was apparently something of an amateur informant. He also boasts of his contacts with the American CIA and the Israeli Mossad in leaked private chats. Some leaked text messages indicate that he worked as an informant for the right-wing populist party FPO. There are also reports that Marsalik worked as an informant for the Austrian secret service under Martin Weiss.
According to the Financial Times, he also wanted to recruit his own mercenary unit in Libya. Marsalik was very fond of using aliases during his time at Wirecard. At the end of his tenure at the company, he said goodbye to everyone via video link. He logged in under the name John Smith. During his escape, he sent numerous messages to trusted contacts, calling himself Richard Dobrowski and Karim Ghazmi.
But Marsalek has had many other identities. The BKA, Europol and Interpol are searching for him under these two images. Jan Marsalek has his own passport under each of his aliases. He is said to have left Belarus under the name Max Mauer when he fled the country.
Marsalek has traveled extensively since 2010, according to his passports. He has visited Singapore and Dubai, where Weirkart has a branch, several times. He has also been to Budapest, Paris, Vienna, London, Mumbai, Nice and Moscow. In total, Marsalek has visited Russia more than 60 times since 2010. In September 2020, shortly after his spectacular escape from Germany, Marsalek began posing as an Orthodox Russian priest.
German and Austrian media outlets have obtained copies of his new passport. Konstantin Boyazov. The new identity of Jan Marsalek. As the investigation showed, a priest named Konstantin Boyazov does exist. He lives in Lipetsk and looks like Marsalek, but their dates of birth do not match. Marsalek posed as Boyazov in order to be able to travel without unnecessary problems.
In 2022, another document was leaked. A document that was another fake passport issued in the name of German Bazhenov. It holds the key to the whereabouts and last identity of Jan Marsalek.
Chapter III. A NEW LIFE.
Moscow. Jan Marsalek goes to Le Amare, an elite Moscow restaurant where Vladimir Putin also likes to dine.
The restaurant is especially famous for its fish, oysters, lobster, caviar, all freshly caught. After dinner, they return to the gated community of Meindorf Gardens. It is located in one of the most expensive residential areas of Russia. Here Marsalek lives, as in Munich, in a stylish in addition to the super rich, the Kremlin guest house is also located here. Putin has his own estate nearby. It looks like someone changed the city and identity, but kept their style.
And yes, this is the new life of Jan Marsalek. Possibly. Details of Marsalek's new life.
Mostly from Russian sources, every now and then there are photos of him allegedly in his car or in a luxury restaurant. Often this information cannot be verified, but the German justice system and authorities around the world are now sure that Marsalek is really hiding in Moscow and has been living there for 3 years. In 2021, the German Federal Intelligence Service even received an offer for negotiations from Moscow.
Jan Marsalek was proposed by some part of the Russian Secret Service to their German counterparts. Would you like to come and meet Jan Marsalek? Talk to him and find out what's going on there. And they took him down. I think because they realized that if there were photographs or videos of German secret agents secretly meeting Jan Marslek, this bad guy who disappeared,
The German government has yet to provide any information on the case. In 2023, a Wall Street Journal report revealed that it was clear to authorities around the world that Jan Marsalik was a Russian spy. According to Bellingcat research, he had been traveling to Moscow more and more frequently since 2014. He was believed to have passed on information about Wirecard clients to Moscow. These clients also included the German Federal Intelligence Service BND and the Federal Criminal Police Office BKA.
It is believed that nearly a third of the credit card payments for undercover agents were made by the BKA through Wirecard. These transfers could indirectly trace the identity and location of secret service agents. Marsalik was also alleged to have supported the Russian paramilitary group Wagner. He was also alleged to have illegally transferred money for Russian spies to finance covert operations, including a group of Bulgarians who were allegedly spying for Russia in the UK.
After Dan Makram first reported on financial irregularities in Singapore in 2019, he became the target of intimidation attempts. He and other journalists were followed and their mobile phones were tapped. Makram suspects that the Bulgarians arrested by the UK may be involved.
In 2022, Marsalek appears to have personally facilitated the smuggling of top-secret devices from Vienna to Moscow - mobile phones of former high-ranking Austrian politicians and a top-secret SINA laptop. This abbreviation stands for Secure Internet Architecture. A cryptotechnology developed jointly by German intelligence agencies and organizations around the world, using the technology to work with top-secret data. In one of his texts, Marsalek confirms that the laptop safely reached the FSB, he also writes that the Russian craftsman paid 20 thousand euros in cash for it.
In fact, Jan Marsalik is a very good spy, much more professional and experienced than everyone thought. Media reports from March 2024 claim that his ex-girlfriend Natalia Zlobina recruited him back in 2014. Experts in the case believe that the former Russian model introduced Marsalik to Russian businessmen and undercover handlers.
And apparently, in exchange for all this espionage, Russia was supposed to help Jan Marsalik escape.
Conclusion.
In Germany, Jan Marsalik faces up to 14 years in prison for financial fraud. That's not even counting the alleged leak of state secrets. But to put him behind bars, prosecutors will first have to catch him. According to the Wall Street Journal, Jan Marsalik may currently be in Dubai. Reporters believe that after Prigozhin's death, Marsalik may be helping to rebuild the Wagner Group in Africa.
The hunt for one of the world's most wanted men continues.
Contents:
- Chapter I. ESCAPE.
- Chapter II. MANY-FACED.
- Chapter III. NEW LIFE.
- Conclusion
June 19, 2020. Austria. Early in the evening, a taxi is speeding from Vienna to Föss-Lau Airport. The journey usually takes only 35 minutes, but the taxi driver does not know the way and misses the entrance to the airport. The airport is very small. A tower, a few hangars and a restaurant. Since midday, a small plane has been waiting there, ready for takeoff. A Cessna Citation Mustang model 510, but the passenger is late.
Finally, at 7.45 p.m., a taxi arrives. A well-dressed man gets out of the car. He pays 7,920 euros in cash for the flight. The plane takes off at 8 p.m. The mysterious traveler is a man with many identities. A huge number of false passports and close contacts with foreign intelligence services. He is involved in dubious deals, likes to play spies and agents and enjoys a luxurious life.
He is also a key figure in Europe's biggest economic scandal. Since that evening at Föss-Lau airport, he has been on the run.
Chapter I. ESCAPE.
Wirecard was founded in 1999. The company was long considered Germany’s answer to Silicon Valley – a tech corporation for online payments. A German PayPal, so to speak, but for companies. At first, it accepted payments mainly for porn sites and gambling establishments, but customers quickly became more serious. Over the next few years, Wirecard experienced incredible growth. In 2018, the company became larger than Deutsche Bank.
Dan McCrum was the first to discover a discrepancy in Wirecard’s numbers. Together with his team, he launched a fraud investigation. On June 18, auditors from EY confirmed that Wirecard had lost €1.9 billion in revenue – money that should actually have been in accounts in Asia.
The very next day, June 19, Markus Braun resigned as CEO. A few days later, on June 22, Wirecard claimed that it was highly likely that the missing €1.9 billion no longer existed. On June 25, the company filed for bankruptcy, and thus the inglorious and unexpected end of Wirecard's history. In fact, all these problems could easily have been avoided.
Markus Braun has been arrested and charged with misrepresentation, market manipulation, breach of trust and fraud against commercial gangs totaling billions, but prosecutors are not the only ones issuing an arrest warrant. The second, alleged main culprit is Austrian Jan Marsalek, a member of Wirecard's board of directors largely responsible for the Asian business. The large-scale trial in this case has been ongoing since December 2022.
In addition to former CEO Markus Braun, former chief accountant Stefan von Erfa and key witness Oliver Bellinghaus are also in the dock. All men are presumptively innocent. However, the trial is taking place without Marsalek, who has been missing for almost four years. Marsalek is fired on the same day that EY reveals its accounting problems.
Nevertheless, Braun asks him to go to the Philippines. There, he is supposed to find out where 1.9 billion euros have gone. On June 23, 2020, he lands at Manila Airport in the Philippines. A day later, he travels 800 kilometers to Cebu City and from there, he goes to China. At least that’s what the Philippine immigration documents say, but something is clearly wrong.
Jan Marsalek is not visible on airport CCTV when he enters the country. There are also no flights to China on the supposed day of departure. Apparently, the immigration officials falsified the data. They were subsequently charged, but the question remains the same. WHERE IS MARSALIK REALLY? On the evening of June 18, the day he was fired, Marsalik goes to the Munich restaurant Ilsonio.
There he meets two trusted men from Austria. The first is Martin Weiss, a former agent of the internal intelligence service. The second is Thomas Schellenbacher, a member of parliament from the right-wing populist party FPIO. Marsalik tells them both that he urgently needs to go to the Philippines to sort out a balance problem with his Aerokart. He wants to fly via Minsk, Belarus. Marsalik gives them his passport so that they can book a ticket for him. The next day at 11.56 a.m., an e-mail arrives at Minsk airport.
The sender is an employee of the Minsk travel agency Planeta Grez. It is about VIP entry for a special guest from Vienna. Attached to the letter is a diplomatic passport of the Caribbean state of Grenada. On June 19, 2020, at 8 p.m., a small plane with Jan Marsalik on board takes off and flies towards Belarus. Three hours later, the plane lands in Minsk. Marsalik shows his real passport at passport control at the airport. A
black Mercedes minibus with Belarusian license plates is already waiting for him. He is taken to the Hampton Hotel on Tolstoy Street in Minsk. The Minsk authorities do not know whether Marsalik left Belarus or where he might be. By the time the prosecutor's office starts looking for him, Jan Marsalik is several days ahead of them. They conduct a search of one of his villas in Munich. What they find there raises even more questions.
Chapter II. THE MANY-FACED.
Before his escape, Marsalik spent most of his time here, at 61 Prince Regington Strasse, a luxury villa and something of a private club for Marsalik, his business partners and close friends. It has a high-end CCTV system and a bug-proof room planned, and no one lives here.
The building was used in part as an office, for example by Martin Weiss, the former Austrian intelligence agent who helped Marsalek escape, but the house is also used by former soldiers, agents and money launderers for their meetings. They sit among Italian designer furniture, expensive oil paintings and discuss business. Sometimes they also visit fine restaurants. For business, they go to Feinhost Kefer, for private life - to Matsuhisi in Munich.
Investigators find many expensive paintings and sculptures in the villa. Marsalek even had a statue of Vladimir Putin on his desk. A black combat uniform was also found. Marsalek apparently used this uniform in Palmyra, Syria in 2017, shortly after the area was liberated from ISIS by Syrian troops. Russia supported the Syrian troops during the liberation.
Marsalek probably wanted to experience what no one else had - just to be in an active zone.
When he gets there, he shows the Russian soldiers the clothes he bought with him. He has, like, a super-Kevlar helmet, some kind of helmet, which has a bulletproof suit inside. The soldiers will tell him that this is a very good thing that he bought with him. But if you go for a walk wearing this helmet, every sniper in the area will think that you are number one in the VIP, and they will kill you. So he leaves all this at the hotel.
Do you agree that all this does not quite fit with the position of the COO of a German company? Many questions arise, what is the story behind this villa? Why do so many shady characters meet there? The investigators understand that the search for Marsalek will be much more difficult than they initially thought. They are dealing with a man who was ready to disappear at any moment. Marsalek is said to have connections in various secret services.
He liked to surround himself with current and former agents and spies. He himself was apparently something of an amateur informant. He also boasts of his contacts with the American CIA and the Israeli Mossad in leaked private chats. Some leaked text messages indicate that he worked as an informant for the right-wing populist party FPO. There are also reports that Marsalik worked as an informant for the Austrian secret service under Martin Weiss.
According to the Financial Times, he also wanted to recruit his own mercenary unit in Libya. Marsalik was very fond of using aliases during his time at Wirecard. At the end of his tenure at the company, he said goodbye to everyone via video link. He logged in under the name John Smith. During his escape, he sent numerous messages to trusted contacts, calling himself Richard Dobrowski and Karim Ghazmi.
But Marsalek has had many other identities. The BKA, Europol and Interpol are searching for him under these two images. Jan Marsalek has his own passport under each of his aliases. He is said to have left Belarus under the name Max Mauer when he fled the country.
Marsalek has traveled extensively since 2010, according to his passports. He has visited Singapore and Dubai, where Weirkart has a branch, several times. He has also been to Budapest, Paris, Vienna, London, Mumbai, Nice and Moscow. In total, Marsalek has visited Russia more than 60 times since 2010. In September 2020, shortly after his spectacular escape from Germany, Marsalek began posing as an Orthodox Russian priest.
German and Austrian media outlets have obtained copies of his new passport. Konstantin Boyazov. The new identity of Jan Marsalek. As the investigation showed, a priest named Konstantin Boyazov does exist. He lives in Lipetsk and looks like Marsalek, but their dates of birth do not match. Marsalek posed as Boyazov in order to be able to travel without unnecessary problems.
In 2022, another document was leaked. A document that was another fake passport issued in the name of German Bazhenov. It holds the key to the whereabouts and last identity of Jan Marsalek.
Chapter III. A NEW LIFE.
Moscow. Jan Marsalek goes to Le Amare, an elite Moscow restaurant where Vladimir Putin also likes to dine.
The restaurant is especially famous for its fish, oysters, lobster, caviar, all freshly caught. After dinner, they return to the gated community of Meindorf Gardens. It is located in one of the most expensive residential areas of Russia. Here Marsalek lives, as in Munich, in a stylish in addition to the super rich, the Kremlin guest house is also located here. Putin has his own estate nearby. It looks like someone changed the city and identity, but kept their style.
And yes, this is the new life of Jan Marsalek. Possibly. Details of Marsalek's new life.
Mostly from Russian sources, every now and then there are photos of him allegedly in his car or in a luxury restaurant. Often this information cannot be verified, but the German justice system and authorities around the world are now sure that Marsalek is really hiding in Moscow and has been living there for 3 years. In 2021, the German Federal Intelligence Service even received an offer for negotiations from Moscow.
Jan Marsalek was proposed by some part of the Russian Secret Service to their German counterparts. Would you like to come and meet Jan Marsalek? Talk to him and find out what's going on there. And they took him down. I think because they realized that if there were photographs or videos of German secret agents secretly meeting Jan Marslek, this bad guy who disappeared,
The German government has yet to provide any information on the case. In 2023, a Wall Street Journal report revealed that it was clear to authorities around the world that Jan Marsalik was a Russian spy. According to Bellingcat research, he had been traveling to Moscow more and more frequently since 2014. He was believed to have passed on information about Wirecard clients to Moscow. These clients also included the German Federal Intelligence Service BND and the Federal Criminal Police Office BKA.
It is believed that nearly a third of the credit card payments for undercover agents were made by the BKA through Wirecard. These transfers could indirectly trace the identity and location of secret service agents. Marsalik was also alleged to have supported the Russian paramilitary group Wagner. He was also alleged to have illegally transferred money for Russian spies to finance covert operations, including a group of Bulgarians who were allegedly spying for Russia in the UK.
After Dan Makram first reported on financial irregularities in Singapore in 2019, he became the target of intimidation attempts. He and other journalists were followed and their mobile phones were tapped. Makram suspects that the Bulgarians arrested by the UK may be involved.
In 2022, Marsalek appears to have personally facilitated the smuggling of top-secret devices from Vienna to Moscow - mobile phones of former high-ranking Austrian politicians and a top-secret SINA laptop. This abbreviation stands for Secure Internet Architecture. A cryptotechnology developed jointly by German intelligence agencies and organizations around the world, using the technology to work with top-secret data. In one of his texts, Marsalek confirms that the laptop safely reached the FSB, he also writes that the Russian craftsman paid 20 thousand euros in cash for it.
In fact, Jan Marsalik is a very good spy, much more professional and experienced than everyone thought. Media reports from March 2024 claim that his ex-girlfriend Natalia Zlobina recruited him back in 2014. Experts in the case believe that the former Russian model introduced Marsalik to Russian businessmen and undercover handlers.
And apparently, in exchange for all this espionage, Russia was supposed to help Jan Marsalik escape.
Conclusion.
In Germany, Jan Marsalik faces up to 14 years in prison for financial fraud. That's not even counting the alleged leak of state secrets. But to put him behind bars, prosecutors will first have to catch him. According to the Wall Street Journal, Jan Marsalik may currently be in Dubai. Reporters believe that after Prigozhin's death, Marsalik may be helping to rebuild the Wagner Group in Africa.
The hunt for one of the world's most wanted men continues.
