Another BVT official was arrested in connection with the Wirecard scandal.
There are new developments in the Wirecard scandal. Another BVT official has now been arrested, reports “Die Presse” (online edition). The man arrested in Carinthia on Friday is said to be a confidante of the former BVT department head, who was arrested last week as well as a former member of the FPÖ National Council.
There is a suspicion that the two should have helped the former Wirecard board member Jan Marsalek in his escape to Belarus. The former head of department is also said to have passed on “personal data” to Wirecard together with his BVT employee. He was also responsible for Wirecard to check the solvency of providers of pornographic websites.
The BVT official, who was also arrested, has been on trial for a long time because information is said to have flowed to Russia, reports “Die Presse”.
The arrest of the former FPÖ MP is about corruption investigations that have nothing to do with Wirecard. This was the main character in the mandate purchase affair. At the time, Heinz-Christian Strache was accused of having received money from Ukrainian oligarchs for a place on the list for the man. The FPÖ had always denied the allegations.
The ex-Wirecard board member Marsalek went into hiding in June 2020 and is said to have embezzled two billion euros at Wirecard.
