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According to “Wirtschaftswoche”, which previously reported, the lawyer is said not to have specifically addressed the allegations of fraud against the Austrian manager in the letter. However, he commented on the third-party business of the insolvent payment service provider and made it clear that this existed.
The third-party business is a central topic of the Wirecard process, which is currently being carried out against the former CEO Markus Braun, also an Austrian. The public prosecutor’s office assumes that this business did not exist – Braun, on the other hand, says it did exist.
According to “Wiwo”, Marsalek may also have commented on the different parties involved in the document. In judicial circles, it is said that Marsalek primarily incriminated co-defendant Oliver B., who is considered the prosecution’s key witness. B. was Wirecard’s governor in Dubai for a long time. After the company collapsed, he charged Braun and his former colleague Stephan von E.
According to “Wiwo”, Marsalek is said to have given the court to understand that B. was not telling the truth on several points. B.’s defense attorney, Florian Eder, told the magazine about the alleged allegations: “You can write a lot and say a lot, but you don’t have to believe everything”.
Braun and the two co-accused are on trial, among other things, for gang fraud. You face long prison terms. The Wirecard scandal has been the subject of negotiations at the Munich I Regional Court for several months.
The Wirecard insolvency is one of the biggest economic scandals in the Federal Republic of Germany. Braun, together with the rest of the Wirecard boardroom, is said to have booked bogus transactions in the billions over the years and thus swindled large loans. He denies the allegations and blames Marsalek.
The former Wirecard CFO Marsalek had left abroad in the summer of 2020 when the collapse of the former DAX group became apparent. According to various media reports, Marsalek fled to Russia.
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