Jan Marsalek, the Wirecard executive who went on the run five years ago after the dramatic implosion of the German payments company, was a Russian spy directing espionage operations across Europe ...

The third season of our investigative podcast asks: who is the real Jan Marsalek? And what does his secret life reveal about the powerful forces he serves?

Marsalek, the former Wirecard executive who fled Germany after his company collapsed in a €1.9 billion fraud, was said to have been living in Russia and giving tasks to Roussev and his team.

Marsalek joined Wirecard in 2000, the year after it was founded, and by 2010 was COO of a fintech darling that expanded at a rapid pace – although its meteoric rise came under scrutiny from ...

Jan Marsalek, the Wirecard executive who went on the run five years ago after the dramatic implosion of the German payments company, was a Russian spy directing espionage operations across Europe ...