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According to a report by “SZ”, former Wirecard manager Jan Marsalek was apparently an undercover agent of the Austrian intelligence service, according to German investigators. The Federal Attorney General “has evidence that the Austrian citizen Jan Marsalek was listed as a confidant by an employee of the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight Against Terrorism (BVT),” the newspaper quoted in its edition Friday of the Federal Ministry of Justice’s response to a written question from the left. – Member of the Bundestag Fabio De Masi.
According to the report, the Federal Chancellery declined to comment on the newspaper’s request. The Austrian Interior Ministry, to which the BVT is subordinate, also declined to comment.
Placing an undercover agent in a Dax company without the knowledge of the German authorities would be an affront and could strain relations between Germany and Austria, writes the “SZ”. “The chancellor should pick up the phone as soon as possible and ask Sebastian Kurz what the Austrians are doing here,” De Masi told the newspaper, referring to the Austrian chancellor. “If the suspicion is confirmed, we must call the Austrian ambassador,” demanded the left-wing politician.
Marsalek has been in hiding since June. The Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of serious breach of trust and fraud by professional gangs. Marsalek is said to have artificially inflated the group’s balance sheets with fake posts since 2015 at the latest, along with then-Wirecard CEO Markus Braun, to make the company more attractive to investors and clients.
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According to the Federal Criminal Police Office, the two built non-real assets worth 1.9 billion euros. During a final audit for 2019, the falsification of the balance sheet was discovered. (AFP)
