The Austrian Jan Marsalek, who has been on the run since June 2020 and was a key player in the huge financial scandal that bankrupted the German company Wirecard, has broken his silence.
The Munich court, which has been adjudicating on those allegedly responsible for this blatant fraud since December 8, has received a letter from Jan Marsalek’s lawyer, said a court spokesman, confirming an article in Wirtschaftswoche. The court spokesman did not provide any information about the content of the letter. Jan Marsalek’s lawyer Frank Eckstein said laconically: “We talked about different facets.” [NDLR : de l’affaire] and on different people.
A sulfurous and mysterious character, Jan Marsalek, 43, is wanted by Interpol and has not been found since his hasty departure from Germany in June 2020. He is said to be in Moscow under a false identity, protected by the secret services. Russians, This emerges from an international journalistic research published in 2022. According to the weekly newspaper Wirtschaftswoche, Jan Marsalek, who acted as Wirecard’s operations manager, did not specifically comment on the facts of the case in the letter addressed to the court.
Wirecard officials have been on trial since December
Former Wirecard boss Markus Braun and other suspected officials have been facing a criminal court in Munich since December last year over Germany’s biggest financial scandal, which led to the bankruptcy of payments company Wirecard Online in 2020. Hearings on this flow process are scheduled to last until at least 2024.
Wirecard, a flagship of digital finance that has risen to the ranks of the Dax index, which unites Germany’s stock market elite, collapsed in June 2020 when its executives conceded 1.9 billion euros in assets, a quarter the size of its balance sheet , actually did not exist. The then Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, now Chancellor, acknowledged that this bankruptcy represented “the biggest financial scandal” that the country had ever experienced.