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Jan Marsalek, 40-year-old former Wirecard manager, wanted for billions of dollars worth of fraud; He has been on the run for two months.
Moscow. After the accounting scandal at Wirecard, former manager Jan Marsalek is being persecuted internationally. Marsalek has been on the run for two months. According to reports from the “Handelsblatt”, the 40-year-old man is said to be on a property in Moscow.
Marsalek first flew from Klagenfurt to Tallinn, Estonia, then went by private jet to the Belarusian capital, Minsk, and from there to Moscow. The Russian secret service is said to have assisted the former Wirecard manager. In Moscow, Marsalek is now said to be under the control of the Russian foreign intelligence service SWR.
Based on the latest findings, SWR is said to have even insisted on bringing the former Wirecard boss from Belarus to Moscow as it is “safer than there” for him. Furthermore, the 40-year-old man was promised that he would not be extradited.
The e-card investigation committee is increasingly evident
A commission of inquiry in the German Bundestag is emerging in the billions in the Wirecard accounting scandal. “It can no longer be a question of whether we need an investigative committee, but only what it should investigate exactly,” said FDP financial politician Florian Toncar of the Reuters news agency.
“I am counting on the Greens to be there from Tuesday. It would not be possible to explain to anyone if the Bundestag did not use all means to clear up the biggest fraud case in post-war history.”
This Monday and Tuesday, the Bundestag Finance Committee will hold special sessions on the Wirecard case. The FDP and the left are already in favor of the commission of inquiry, which should then last until the 2021 election year. But the Greens are still needed to have the necessary weight of the votes. “If we are not surprised, a commission of inquiry will be inevitable,” said green finance politician Danyal Bayaz, referring to the special session. “This scandal and its circumstances must be thoroughly clarified to avoid something similar in the future.”
The left hopes to have full access to the files of a commission of inquiry. This Monday, the extraordinary session will address the role of the Foreign Ministry in the fraud scandal. The Minister of Justice, Christine Lambrecht, is also invited. BaFin chief financial officer Felix Hufeld and Bundesbank board member Joachim Wuermeling are due to answer questions on Tuesday.
The former DAX group had to file for bankruptcy at the end of June due to the accounting scandal. Investigators accuse former CEO Markus Braun and other managers of having inflated assets and total sales through bogus deals since at least the end of 2015. It is one of Germany’s biggest financial scandals.
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