Jan Marsalek, the ex-vice president of Wirecard, the payment service provider, is apparently in Belarus. According to a media report, he is said to have fled to Minsk on the day of his release on June 18. According to the report, it is unclear how exactly he got there.
According to a media report, there are new traces of where the fleeting Wirecard vice-chief Jan Marsalek has gone. Most recently, he was seen by his staff on the day of his release, June 18, 2020. Since then he has been on the run. Sometimes it was said that he was in the Philippines, then in Maurititus or somewhere else in Asia. Now there are new concrete clues.
As the "Spiegel" reports after joint research with the investigative platforms Bellingcat from Great Britain, The Insider from Russia "and McClatchy Report from the United States, Marsalek's trail leads to Belarus. As it is said, there is a corresponding entry in Russia The 40-year-old arrived at the airport in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on the night of June 18-19, exactly two seconds after midnight, according to the 40-year-old, who is said to have used one of the passports he already had The data in the document are said to be known to the "mirror".
Marsalek has not yet been recorded in the databases, it is said. This indicates that the manager is still in Belarus or Russia. In June it was initially speculated that Marsalek would be in the Philippines or China. Then it became known, however, that Filipino immigration officials had falsified data in order to simulate the entry and onward travel of the former Wirecard board. How exactly Marsalek could have come to Belarus is unclear, according to the "Spiegel" report. No flight number was noted in the Russian databases for his entry. There is only a reference to a "single flight".
"One has to be guilty"
Marsalek was the right-hand man of ex-Wirecard boss Markus Braun. The ex-manager was responsible for day-to-day operations. Because of the balance sheet scandal, he was released on June 18 and released on June 22. The company had admitted that the annual balance sheet lacked 1.9 billion euros and that the money at two Filipino banks probably did not exist. The share price of the Dax group crashed and the company filed for bankruptcy.
Ex-Wirecard boss Braun has now turned to the judiciary. Marsalek, meanwhile, let his lawyer know that he did not want to surrender. He does not contradict the allegations made against him in connection with the accounting scandal. The "Handelsblatt" had recently published chat logs of his cell phone. Accordingly, Marsalek wrote to a confidant about the messenger service Telegram: "One must be guilty, and I am the obvious choice."
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