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Vienna (dpa) - In connection with the Wirecard scandal
, two alleged escape helpers were arrested by ex-manager Jan Marsalek in Austria.
The public prosecutor in Vienna confirmed on Monday that it was a former member of the National Council of the FPÖ and an ex-employee of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (BVT).
The investigation was ongoing on suspicion of beneficiary.
The ex-MP is in custody for other investigations and the former BVT employee is now at large.
The former Wirecard manager Marsalek was, according to information from the Attorney General, possibly undercover agent for the Austrian intelligence service.
The Federal Prosecutor General "has evidence that the Austrian citizen Jan Marsalek was led by an employee of the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter Terrorism (BVT) as a confidant," it said in a response made known in October 2020 by the Federal Ministry of Justice in Berlin to a request from Member of the Bundestag Fabio De Masi (left).
The former manager of the now insolvent payment service provider Wirecard has been in hiding since June.
The investigators accuse Marsalek, the former CEO Markus Braun and other suspects of organized gang fraud.
You are said to have tricked banks and investors with falsified balance sheet figures over three billion euros.
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