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Long arm:
ex-Wirecard board member
Jan Marsalek
is apparently following a former confidante
Photo: Mirco Taliercio / laif
Aleksandar V.
(48), internet investor and multi-managing director, likes to show off his wealth.
His champagne lunches on Ibiza have already cost five-digit amounts, reports acquaintances.
He had spent similar sums on vases in his office in Munich's posh Bogenhausen district.
At least that's what the price tags showed that V. hung up.
The investor also did not hide his tendency to choleric failures.
Many a visit to the business lounge at the airport ended in a roar.
And occasionally he even pondered in front of a larger audience about doing physical violence to a board member.
Only when someone was in the room, then the boor was "transformed" and was remarkably subdued:
Jan Marsalek
(40), long-time board member of the collapsed Dax group Wirecard.
V. raves in an email about Marsalek's "very pronounced strategic skills".
Marsalek worked mostly on Fridays at V.'s office and was then clearly the boss in the villa.
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