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Former Wirecard manager Jan Marsalek is said to have been a confidant for the Austrian intelligence service. This is reported by the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.
According to the report, the Karlsruhe federal prosecutor is examining Marsalek’s role as a contact. Germany’s highest law enforcement agency had evidence that Marsalek, who was born in Austria, was “headed by an employee of the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight Against Terrorism (BVT) as a confidant,” it read. the answer to a written question from the left-wing member of the Bundestag, Fabio. From Masi.
According to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, German security groups have long been sure that Marsalek had close ties to BVT. The German services would not have been informed of this by their Austrian colleagues. Marsalek may have spied for the Austrian service in Germany.
In July, the daily “Presse” reported that Marsalek had reportedly transmitted secret information from the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BVT) and the Interior Ministry to the right-wing populist FPÖ through an intermediary.
The Austrian authorities and ministries have yet to comment on this. Nothing could be said for “legal reasons”, said a spokesman for the Interior Ministry of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. The Vienna Federal Chancellery did not comment either.
The opposition calls for special investigators
This Thursday, a parliamentary inquiry committee on Wirecard in the Bundestag began work, mainly to examine the political dimension. The opposition formed by the left, the Greens and the FDP called for the appointment of a special investigator to investigate the Wirecard Group’s contacts with the secret services in Austria and Russia, for example.
In June, the payment service provider Wirecard had granted air bookings of 1.9 billion euros. The prosecution is investigating commercial gang fraud, breach of trust, misrepresentation and market manipulation against the former leadership around former CEO Markus Braun. With the exception of one key witness, the managers reject the allegations. Former board member Marsalek, who was considered the mastermind, initially flew to Belarus on a private jet in June, but is now supposed to be in Russia. It is also suspected that Marsalek should have received support from the Russian services in his escape.
