Russia did not respond to the request of Germany concerning fugitive top Manager Wirecard

Ian Marsalek

Wirecard

In June 2020, Wirecard, the auditors discovered that the accounts of the company do not have 1.9 billion euros

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The German authorities have requested Russia’s cooperation in finding former member of the Board of Directors of the German payment system of Wirecard Jan Marsalek who disappeared after missing from the accounts of the company two billion euros. According to The Wall Street Journal, the request was sent on July 22, as of July 28, Moscow did not answer him.

According to the publication, Germany asked the Russian authorities to provide information about how moved if a top Manager in the country. In addition, Interpol has circulated an international warrant for the arrest Marsalek.

In June 2020, Wirecard, the auditors discovered that the accounts of the company do not have 1.9 billion euros. After that, the company’s CEO was arrested, the management was fired. Marsalek said that they would find the missing money, but soon disappeared. He was wanted by the authorities of Germany and Austria.

According to the investigation Insider, Bellingcat, Der Spiegel and McClatchy publisher, Marsalek through the Estonian border has left to Belarus. Later, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported that the top Manager is in Russia. The journalists argued that because of the conflict the Russian leadership, with President Alexander Lukashenko GRU officers felt that to leave Marsalek in another country too risky, and transported it to Russia. Now he is supposedly in a private house near Moscow under the supervision of the GRU.

Marsalek suspected of cooperation with Russian intelligence services. Over the past 10 years it more than 60 times came to Russia for six different Austrian passports. The Insider, Bellingcat and Der Spiegel suggest that Wirecard could do remittances for the financing of Russian PMCs in Africa. As the Financial Times wrote that to gain credibility among financiers Marsalek showed partners secret documents about the investigation of the poisoning Skrobala in Salisbury and the Russian poison “Beginner”.