Christoph Ulmer may have been doing “social media monitoring” for Wirecard for years – for 25,000 euros a month.
The Viennese entrepreneur Christoph Ulmer was a contractor for the German Wirecard AG and its board member Jan Marsalek for several years. This is what the news magazine profil reports in its current issue.
Between 2000 and 2003, Ulmer was head of cabinet of ÖVP Interior Minister Ernst Strasser and as such played a major role in the creation of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism, which has now got caught up in the Wirecard scandal.
A consulting firm UImers made for Wirecard “social media” watch activities and calculated for it, according to a profile this bill from the year 2018 (addressed to Marsalek) 25,000 euro fee per month. In response to a profile request, Ulmer said: “We have worked for Wirecard for several years. We have created social media reports of the most extensive nature, at least one per week, and more if necessary.”
In these reports, “all available information about Wirecard was continuously collected, evaluated and weighted at great expense in order to create a current picture of Wirecard. That was international and not just limited to Germany”.
When asked about the order volume, Ulmer says: “I can't say that by heart. We worked for Wirecard for four or five years, the 25,000 euros a month already come in, but in the beginning it was a little less as I recall.”
