Wirecard

History

2022: German intelligence refused a meeting in Moscow with Wirecard's former chief financial officer

In April 2022, it became known that German intelligence refused to meet in Moscow with former Wirecard CFO Jan Marsalek, who fled shortly before the startup collapsed and is now wanted by Interpol.

In March 2021, a businessman turned to the representative of the German Foreign Intelligence Service (BND) at the German embassy in Moscow, who proposed to organize a meeting with Marsalek. However, the higher leadership in Berlin rejected this idea, fearing that the businessman could be associated with the FSB, and the proposed meeting was an occasion for provocation against German intelligence.

At the same time, German prosecutors and the BND are sure that Marsalek really hid in Moscow, the newspaper's interlocutors noted.

In June 2020, the Munich prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the disappearance of $2 billion in Wirecard. The day after the start of the investigation, Jan Marsalek, according to investigators, escaped from persecution from Austria to Belarus by private plane. Now, at the request of Germany, Interpol is looking for him.

2020: Customers refuse EY services that failed to recognize the shortage of $1.9 billion from the fintech company Wirecard

At the end of September 2020, it became known that the third largest bank in Germany KfW decided to abandon the audit services of the consulting company Ernst & Young, which failed to recognize the shortage of 1.9 billion euros from the scandalous fintech startup Wirecard. More details here.