The Dossier Center and the Süddeutsche Zeitung familiarized themselves with the materials of the criminal case about the “theft of the century.”
Jan Marsalek actively collaborated with a senior official of the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (BVT) Egisto Ottom.
Investigators believe that he downloaded highly confidential dossiers, passed on classified information to Russian intelligence services and “punched” various people through intelligence databases in the interests of Marsalek and Wirecard.
In particular, Ott collected a dossier on the wife of the ex-mayor of Moscow Elena Baturina, disgraced Kazakh oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazova And Dmitry Ganzhu – son of the Russian Consul General in Munich Sergei Ganzhi. 21-year-old Dmitry asked a member of the Wirecard board of directors for an interview for his thesis on the transition to a “cashless society.” Jan Marsalek not only helped Ganzhe formulate the factors for such a transition, but also introduced him to Wirecard’s Vice President of Finance.
The reason for such active participation in the young man’s education was explained by Marsalek himself in correspondence with the vice-president of Wirecard: Dmitry’s father Sergey Ganzha “helped us a lot with Skytech” We are apparently talking about the Russian company Skytech LLC, which both wrote German media reported that Marsalek helped obtain a loan of 6 million euros from Wirecard despite having no credit history. Skytech was supposed to process payments for all Russian airlines. However, the company was later sold, but no one returned the money to Wirecard. The Capital newspaper wrote that the company was supposed to enter into an agreement with Rostec, and Marsalek was very interested in this project. In one of the letters, he asked his partner to quickly set deadlines for completing tasks, since his “friends” from Skytech needed “report to Putin”
In addition, the lists for “breaking through” included people who could presumably be connected with the Russian special services. Ott was collecting dossiers on Stanislav Petlinsky – a man who at the beginning of the 2000s worked in the administrative department of the President of the Russian Federation, and then became a mediator in negotiations between Marsalek and Libyan businessmen. Previously Dossier Center found out that in 2019 Petlinsky received a new passport in the name Boris Green. The document was issued by the same Federal Migration Service that provided passports to GRU officers Petrov and Boshirov, while a person with such data does not exist in the databases of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Rospassport.
In addition to Petlinsky, Ott “punched” a person by name Vladimir Popovborn June 29, 1980. By data Bellingcat and The Insider, documents with such data were used by GRU Colonel Vladimir Moiseev, whom the Montenegrin authorities suspect of attempting to organize a coup in 2016.
Ott’s activities eventually attracted the attention of law enforcement. In 2017, the CIA caught him sending confidential documents to his personal Gmail account. Ott was transferred to a lower position in the Austrian Ministry of Internal Affairs, but he did not stop helping Marsalek – old connections in the intelligence services helped him obtain information. According to investigators, he transferred secret data not only to the director of Wirecard, but also to the Russian intelligence services. Such work brought a lot of income: sometimes he deposited 90 thousand euros in cash into his account at a time. Ott himself categorically denies these accusations.
The Dossier’s interlocutor, who is familiar with Ott and the circumstances of the case, believes that Jan Marsalek organized a shadow office, which not everyone knew about even in the management of Wirecard. “They rented a villa on Prinzregentenstrasse in Munich, right across the road from the Russian Consulate General. Martin Weiss worked there [бывший третий человек в австрийской разведке BVT]Egisto Ott also came there. It was equipped with the latest technology, and this is where all the shadow operations that Marsalek oversaw took place: Libyan and Syrian projects, banking issues of people of special interest like Firtash, and, apparently, money laundering for Russian intelligence services and criminal elements “
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