The Austrian and former Wirecard board member Jan Marsalek is one of the most wanted men in the world, partly responsible for one of the biggest scandals in German economic history.
Joint research by SPIEGEL, ZDF, the Austrian “Standard” and the Russian investigative platform “The Insider” now shows: Marsalek has apparently been working for the Russian secret service for over a decade.
In a three-part series in the “Inside Austria” podcast, we reconstruct the research into the crazy agent story about Jan Marsalek.
In the first episode we show how the Wirecard manager was recruited by secret service agents and how he built a double life as a spy.
In the weekly podcast “Inside Austria,” SPIEGEL and “Standard” look together at the big and small scandals in Austria.
Together with journalists from both editorial teams, we reconstruct cases and events that affect the country.
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