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Former Wirecard board member Jan Marsalek, who is accused of being involved in a multi-billion dollar fraud, allegedly flew from Bad Vöslau in Lower Austria to Minsk on the night of June 19, write “Presse “,” Kurier “and” Süddeutsche Zeitung “(” SZ “)) without citing the source. So far, a flight was rumored on June 18 from Klagenfurt. At that time there was still no arrest warrant for the fugitive Marsalek, he was suspended as a member of the Wirecard board. The flight was legal at the time, writes the “messenger”.
On the eve of the flight, Marsalek met with former senior employee Martin W. of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BVT), according to the newspapers. Marsalek has a friendly relationship with the former licensing officer. In BVT, W. was suspected of having composed the partly sinister package of partly unsubstantiated allegations that led to the search of the house with the state security service.
BVT Contacts
It is unknown what Marsalek did after arriving in Minsk. The man who is now wanted on an international arrest warrant is said to have good contacts with the Russian secret service. It is speculated that it could be in Russia.
As the “Presse” reported, Marsalek had good contacts in the BVT: information about him was repeatedly transmitted to the top of the FPÖ. It is unknown who his BVT informant was. W. denies the accusations at this address.
Marsalek proposed to the FPÖ in May 2018, according to “Presse”, a lawyer as the new head of BVT. Until now he had nothing to do with the BVT, but he was W.’s confidant when he heard the witnesses in the BVT case.
“SZ”: pressure on auditors is increasing
According to “SZ”, there is also mounting pressure on EY’s auditors, who were responsible for Wirecard for years and who did not discover the billions in fraud at the company. Because KPMG, which was called for a special audit, reported in April 2020 that an EY employee reportedly warned as early as 2016 that Wirecard executives could be involved in fraud and that there should have been a bribery attempt .
Marsalek completed a subsequent forensic investigation without a final report, and the results of the investigation were not sufficiently taken into account in the 2017 annual financial statements. EY denies allegations that everything was properly documented at the time.
In June, the now insolvent payment service provider Wirecard admitted air bookings of 1.9 billion euros. The Munich prosecution assumes that Wirecard has been showing false earnings since 2015 and is investigating commercial gang fraud.
