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Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek resurfaces with a message for the courts

Former Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek resurfaces after three years in hiding and issues a statement to the Munich Regional Court through his lawyer amid Germany’s largest fraud trial involving Wirecard.

Facts

  • Jan Marsalek, former COO of Wirecard, re-emerged after three years in hiding and delivered a statement to the Munich Regional Court through his defense lawyer Frank Eckstein.
  • Wirecard, a German payment processor, collapsed in 2020 with a $2 billion hole in its accounts and nearly $4 billion in debt to investors.
  • German police have issued an arrest warrant for Marsalek, who disappeared just before Wirecard’s collapse.
  • Former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun, along with former executives Oliver Bellenhaus and Stephan von Erffa, is currently on trial in Germany facing charges of fraud and accounting manipulation.
  • German prosecutors allege that a third-party business overseen by Marsalek in Asia, which was thought to hold $2 billion in cash, never existed. An audit by EY revealed the accounts were empty, leading to Wirecard’s bankruptcy.
  • Bellenhaus, now a witness for the prosecution, claimed to have received €4.8 million over seven years for his role in the plot.
  • Marsalek’s eight-page letter to the court, reported by WirtschaftsWoche, did not directly address the allegations against him. Instead, it asserted the reality of Wirecard’s third-party business in Asia, which is also claimed by Braun’s lawyer, while challenging Bellenhaus’s credibility.
  • Despite being one of Europe’s most wanted fugitives, Marsalek has not disclosed his exact whereabouts, and the trial continues.

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