The story is very strange. As reported, the Russian domestic secret service FSB reportedly offered the resident of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in Moscow, i.e. the official representative of the BND, an interview with Marsalek. The BND declined with thanks as it was the wrong recipient in the Wirecard case. But the BND had collected information about Marsalek in Moscow.
Subsequently, prosecutors in Munich were reportedly informed at the BND headquarters in Berlin to be able to request the extradition of the alleged billionaire fraudster. The Munich Public Prosecutor I does not want to comment directly on legal assistance.
Just this: “If you find out where the address of a wanted person might be, you can ask the other state to send the police there and arrest him,” Munich public prosecutor Anne Leiding tells KURIER. “It’s not like we can go directly to the Kremlin or the FSB.”
Marsalek, who fled Bad Vöslau for Minsk on a private jet on June 19, 2020, liked to flirt with his alleged proximity to the secret services. He wasn’t just in contact with the Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution through Martin W. Another BAT official is said to have helped him. This is where the Russian secret service comes into play again. The officer reportedly consulted the data of the alleged Russian spy Ekaterina Z. in the EKIS police computer system. It is not unlikely that Marsalek was the client.