He transferred money to secret operations of the Kremlin: Exglav Wirecard cooperated with the Russian Federation - WSJ

According to former employees of the company, the 43-year-old native of Austria secretly collected information about German intelligence officers, and then transferred the data to Moscow. The former Wirecard Payment Company Jan Marsalek, who is accused of theft of almost two billion euros, may be an agent of Russian intelligence. This is stated in the material of the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) of December 15.

It is noted that using office, the suspect could help the Russians transfer money through the company to finance underground activities. Moreover, Wirecard was engaged in the service of representatives of German special services, and information about them could be collected and transmitted to Moscow. So in the Russian Federation it was possible to track the movement of the Germans, as well as their meetings.

The Wall Street Journal refers to representatives of the Western intelligence agencies and security services in its material. They told the secrets about Jan Marsalek's activities in Wirecard's financial institution, which was considered the pride of Germany and which was a kind of competitor to PayPal. Moreover, the company has processed payments for a quarter of a million corporate customers for $ 140 billion a year. At one point, it turned out that 1.

9 billion euros disappeared from Wirecard, after which Jan Marselek suddenly left Germany and found himself in Moscow. So he became one of the most wanted people on the planet, because it can be involved.

"After numerous international investigations, representatives of intelligence, police and legal authorities of several countries say that the 43-year-old Austrian native has used a bankruptcy company now to help Russian intelligence services illegally to transfer money to finance secret operations in different countries.

" The sources of the American newspaper said that the former topless man could simultaneously work on the military intelligence of the GRU (the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) and the service of external intelligence (SZR). He could transfer funds to agents, informants, military contractors, or completely transport them to conflict zones in Africa and the Middle East.

There were also secret projects, according to the material, including the purchase of various weapons. Particular attention is paid to the fact that Jan Marsalek could collect information about German intelligence staff and the Federal Criminal Justice Department. After this, the department had even had to change the individuals of some people, because information about them could already be in the hands of Russian special services.

The high -ranking representative of the German intelligence agency confessed that Wirecard was used because the company was more friendly than other banks in the country. By the way, many financial institutions immediately refused to work with intelligence services, because there were legal reasons and they feared for their reputation.

The company's former WSJ managers also admitted that Jan Marsalek allegedly forced them to collect customer information, although he knew that it was breaking the rules for their protection and security. The former Wirecard toplesser himself often traveled the world on private business jetts and most often these were trips to Russia. Several dozen flights per year were recorded. He now lives under a new name and spends a lot of time in Dubai, sharing Western intelligence services.

Earlier, he worked with a retired employee of Russian intelligence, who purchased weapons for Russia, now on behalf of Moscow is involved in the reorganization of African operations of the Wagner PEC. British investigators are now accused of managing a network of five citizens of Bulgaria, who also turned out to be Russian agents from 2020 to 2023. They monitored different people and helped Russian special services to steal them.