Leaked Documents Suggest Former Wirecard Exec Was Linked to Secret Russian Gov Operations
Wirecard’s recently-prosecuted former Chief Operations
Officer, Jan Marsalek, may have had ties to Russian intelligence services. He
also allegedly held secret documents about the use of a Russian chemical weapon
in the U.K.
According to the Financial Times, the former Wirecard
executive bragged of his intelligence services’ ties in an effort to further
integrate with London traders.
Recovered documents contain specific data on the formula for
the world’s deadliest nerve agent, known as Novichok. The chemical weapon was
used in the poisoning of a former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter
Julia on March 4, 2018.
Germany on the hunting of Marsalek
Military experts from the U.K. don’t believe that the leaked
documents have come from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons, or OPCW, member states in western Europe. Nor do they believe them to
have come from the U.S., due to its restricted circulation that is limited to
the OPCW member states.
German authorities are trying to figure out Marsalek’s
whereabouts. The former exec stepped down from Wirecard in June after
authorities discovered a $2.1B shortfall on the firm’s books.
The former chief executive officer of Wirecard, Markus
Braun, was detained by Munich police on June 23 after being charged with
misrepresenting the company’s balances.
The Financial Times also reported that Wirecard’s former COO
entered the Philippines via Manila in June before traveling to China from Cebu,
according to the Filipino immigration records.
However, Philippine justice secretary, Menardo Guevarra,
stated:
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