Ex-Wirecard manager Marsalek an undercover agent? Spectacular media report reveals incredible entanglements

The already unbelievable story of Jan Marsalek gets a new chapter.

According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the former Wirecard manager is said to be an undercover agent.

• The story of

  Jan Marsalek

  , former COO of

  Wirecard AG

  *, reads like a thriller.

• After the

  balance sheet scandal

  , the ex-board member is on the run.

• According to a media report was

  Marsalek

  possibly an

  undercover agent

  of the Austrian intelligence service.

Munich - Former Wirecard manager

* may have been

of the

.

The

Federal

Public Prosecutor General “has evidence that the Austrian citizen

as a confidant by an employee of the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter Terrorism (BVT),” said the answer from the

Ministry of

in Berlin to a question from the Bundestag member

of the Die Linke * party, about which the

reports.

In the answer, which is also available to the

, the ministry adds: “So far there have been no sufficient factual indications that the contacts between

and BVT

in the room constitute

an act of

secret service agent activity directed

against the

or another in could fulfill the prosecution responsibility of the Federal Public Prosecutor General's criminal offense. "

Jan Marsalek an undercover agent?

Newspaper report reveals spectacular entanglement

According to the

, the

, to which the BVT is subordinate, did not want to comment.

Placing an undercover agent in a DAX company would be an affront and could strain German-Austrian relations.

Left MP

demanded in the

: "The Chancellor should pick up the phone as quickly as possible and

ask

what the Austrians are up to here." If the suspicion is confirmed, the Austrian ambassador must be called in, according to the left-wing politician .

Video: Search for Jan Marsalek

The former manager of the now insolvent payment service provider *

*, Marsalek, has been in hiding since June.

The investigators accuse

, the former CEO

* and other suspects of organized gang fraud.

Since 2015 at the latest,

and

are said to have

artificially inflated the group's balance sheets through dummy postings in order to make the company more attractive to investors and customers.

With falsified balance sheet figures, they are said to

have swindled

over

from banks and investors.

During a final audit for 2019, the falsification of the balance sheet was discovered.

(dpa / AFP / fmü)