Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek used compromised intelligence officials in Vienna to spy on European citizens and plot break-ins and assassinations by elite Russian hit squads. He also obtained a Nato government’s cutting-edge cryptography machine and smuggled stolen senior Austrian civil servants’ phones to Moscow.
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Wirecard fugitive helped run Russian spy operations across Europe
Austria’s justice minister, the Green party’s Alma Zadić, promised on Thursday to urgently review Austrian espionage legislation in response to the revelations.
