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It’s one of the most colorful facets of the Wirecard financial scandal: the connection between the fleeting former board member of the former DAX group, Jan Marsalek, with the international secret services. There are numerous indications of this, but the Federal Attorney General and the federal government do not appear to want to continue with the evidence.
According to information from SPIEGEL, the attorney general has closed the investigation for a formal investigation into this matter. That stems from the federal government’s response to a request from left-wing politician Michael Leutert, who has received SPIEGEL. It indicates that “the Federal Attorney General’s Office (GBA) is not conducting any investigation process in the Federal Court of Justice in relation to the matter mentioned in the question.
The Karlsruhe authorities have therefore terminated the initial examinations, which were reported by the »Süddeutsche Zeitung« at the end of October. It was the question of whether Marsalek could have been included as a confidant of the Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
In its reply to Parliament, the Federal Government wrote: »There was insufficient factual evidence that the contacts between Jan Marsalek and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism in question constituted an act of agent activity of the secret service directed against the Federal Republic of Germany or any other could comply with the prosecuting jurisdiction of the GBA falling as a crime “.
The German government does not ask in Vienna
The left also wanted to know if the federal government had been in contact with the Austrian government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP). Berlin denies it. There was “no exchange between departments at the managerial level with the Austrian government,” it says in the letter from the federal government.
Fabio De Masi, chairman of the left in the parliamentary commission to investigate the Wirecard scandal, recalls that Marsalek was in Munich on the night of June 18, the day before his escape, with Martin W., a former employee of the constitutional protection Austrian. It has hit the food. A day later, Marsalek, considered the main suspect in the economic scandal, took a private jet to Belarus via Klagenfurt. W. was a close confidant of Marsalek and a permanent guest at his Munich home, a Wilhelminian-style villa on Prinzregentenstrasse in the posh Bogenhausen district.
“It is a scandal that the federal government does not pick up the phone and hold Chancellor Kurz against its chest,” De Masi told SPIEGEL and asked provocatively: “Could it be because the German services had more information than they admit? What are Marsalek and the Austrians up to? The left-wing politician also wonders why Marsalek was able to “leave Germany relaxed.” He suspects that Marsalek may have received intelligence support.
Doubtful dealings with a former Austrian agent
The connection between Marsalek and former Austrian secret service employee Martin W. is also significant because, according to SPIEGEL information, the two were doing business together. Marsalek is said to have referred W. to his business friend Aleksandar V. and his company IMS Capital. The holding company resided in Villa Marsalek on Prinzregentenstrasse in Munich. From there, Martin W. oversaw foreign investments and projects for IMS Capital. Wirecard had awarded some of these projects to IMS.
The secret service’s involvement in the Wirecard case will also be discussed in the investigative committee, regardless of the fact that the US Attorney is obviously not suspicious. It’s also about dubious activities in Libya, in which the former Wirecard board of directors is said to have been involved. Marsalek, among other things, had invested money in three cement factories in the east of the country since 2015, officially to support the reconstruction of the country. But there are also indications that he wanted to establish a mercenary force to secure the southern borders of the civil war country.
SPIEGEL recently reported on Marsalek’s close relationship with former Libyan secret service agent Rami El Obeidi. The lawyer for the fugitive Wirecard manager does not want to comment on the allegations against his client.
