Where Has Wirecard Billionaire Fugitive Jan Marsalek Disappeared To?

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Jan Marsalek, the former COO of Wirecard, which collapsed in June amid allegations of a $2.3 billion fraud, is now thought to be living under a false identity in the former USSR.

European Editor at Large

Published Nov. 6 2020 4:40AM EST

For your average Chief Operating Officer, a lifetime spent living in the shadows on assumed identities and looking over one’s shoulder might seem a fate considerably worse than a spell in a German

Tom Sykes

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Where Has Wirecard Billionaire Fugitive Jan Marsalek Disappeared To?

Jan Marsalek, the former COO of Wirecard, which collapsed in June amid allegations of a $2.3 billion fraud, is now thought to be living under a false identity in the former USSR.

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