The FDP financial politician Markus Herbrand demands that the Bundestag be informed comprehensively about new findings on the fugitive former Wirecard sales manager Jan Marsalek.
It was "fundamentally wrong" to only inform the secret committee responsible for monitoring the intelligence services, Herbrand told the German Press Agency.
"There is a suspicion of misinformation being given to Parliament and this is a process that must be made public and completely clarified in the German Bundestag." In the Finance Committee on Wednesday he demanded that all knowledge be disclosed.
"All cards belong on the table."
Marsalek, one of the key figures in the scandal surrounding the collapsed financial service provider Wirecard, has been in hiding since the summer of 2020 and is believed to be in Russia.
According to reports from "Bild" he is said to be in a hiding place of the Russian secret service FSB.
According to “Bild”, the German judiciary had officially asked the Russian government to arrest and extradite him.
Herbrand was "very irritated" that the Bundestag was not informed of Marsalek's whereabouts in the Wirecard investigative committee last year, "although there was apparently knowledge of this".
The collapse of Wirecard is considered the largest case of fraud in German post-war history.
In the meantime, the Munich public prosecutor's office has indicted the former CEO Markus Braun and two other former top managers.
They are said to have falsified balance sheets since 2015 and damaged lending banks by a total of 3.1 billion euros.
Braun's defense attorneys, however, protested his innocence.
In June 2020, Wirecard, once considered a German technology flagship company, filed for bankruptcy.
The triggers were missing 1.9 billion euros that were allegedly booked in trust accounts.