On the evening of June 20, 2020, Jan Marsalek gets out of a taxi at an airport in Vienna.
A small plane is waiting on the tarmac.
The accounting scandal at the financial service provider Wirecard had only been exposed one day earlier, and the manager was not yet wanted with an international arrest warrant.
The plane takes off at 8:03 p.m.
It lands in the Belarusian capital Minsk.
Jan Marsalek's trace is lost there.
Until now.
A joint investigation by SPIEGEL, ZDF, the Austrian “Standard” and the Russian investigative platform “The Insider” has revealed how Jan Marsalek fled via Belarus to Moscow.
How he takes on the identity of an Orthodox priest and presumably becomes the client of a spy ring.
In a three-part series in the podcast “Inside Austria” we tell the spectacular agent story of Jan Marsalek.
In the third episode we reconstruct his escape and tell us what we know about his life in exile.
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 move the country.
We look into the political abyss, follow the investigations surrounding the Sebastian Kurz case and his ÖVP and provide information about an important Austrian topic of the week.