Investigators from several countries are looking for Jan Marsalek – and we found him in Moscow…

New details of the escape of one of the most wanted criminals in the world are in the investigation of the Dossier Center and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.

In previous texts we said that the operating director of the German company Wirecard For many years, Jan Marsalek had suspiciously close contacts with employees of the GRU and the presidential apparatus, and could also help Russians obtain financial services in Europe. The Russian side did not remain in debt: when his machinations were revealed, they organized his escape, gave him Russian citizenship and provided him with state protection.

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Marsalek’s adventures began in June 2020, when independent auditors missed 1.9 billion euros on Wirecard’s balance sheet. These funds were to be kept in the accounts of the company’s Philippine representative office, for which Marsalek was responsible. He promised to look into the situation and allegedly flew to the Philippines. As it turned out later, in reality, Marsalek falsified information about entry into Manila and fled to Minsk. And this was just the beginning of his new life.

The Dossier Center and the Süddeutsche Zeitung found out how it all happened:

▪️the escape in Austria was organized by a former deputy of the local parliament from the far-right Austrian Freedom Party Thomas Schellenbacher and former senior Austrian intelligence officials Martin Weiss And Egisto Ott;

▪️At the Minsk airport, a VIP service was booked for Marsalek through the local travel company Planet of Dreams. Previously, the services of this company were used by a friend of Marsalek and a former employee of the presidential affairs department Stanislav Petlinsky. Considering Petlinsky’s active participation in Marsalek’s affairs, it is possible that it was he who organized Marsalek’s escape from the Russian side;

▪️Russian intelligence services arranged a meeting for Marsalek in Minsk. So, for example, he received another Austrian passport under the false name of Max Mayer, who allegedly crossed the Belarusian border with Marsalek. The passport was false – according to Süddeutsche Zeitung sources, there is no such number in the Austrian databases;

▪️footage of Marsalek arriving at the airport has been deletedand to the hotel in Minsk he was driven by a car with the registration plates of the local KGB;

▪️after arriving in Moscow Marsalek lives under state protection of the 2nd service of the FSB Internal Security Service. He is a frequent guest of the La Marée restaurant on Malaya Gruzinskaya, where Russian oligarchs and security officials celebrate under a portrait of Putin;

▪️in 2021, Max Mayer received Russian citizenship. He was given a passport in the name of German Bazhenov – however, it was again fake. Its number matches the expired document of ex-State Duma deputy Daria Mitina, and the photograph has been retouched. At the same time, two Dossier sources in the intelligence services confirmed that Marsalek was issued a Russian passport. Only with such a document he will not get far from his guards;

▪️as the Dossier’s interlocutor explains, the intelligence services gave Marsalek a passport in the name of Bazhenov for everyday business and assumed that information about his existence could “leak.” Presumably, in such a case, Marsalek has another Russian passport with a different name;

▪️according to the Dossier, until recently Marsalek lived in the gated community “Meiendorf Gardens”. We also managed to obtain photographs and videos of Marsalek leaving the Airbus residential complex in Moscow;

▪️In response to questions from German law enforcement officers, the Russian side replies that there is no Marsalek in Russia. Technically they are right: He received Russian citizenship as Max Mayer.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AkKs0KHDXI

Text:
https://dossier-center.appspot.com/yan-german/ (with VPN)

https://dossier.center/yan-german/ (no VPN).