The high-ranking Austrian Military Gustav Gustnah suspected in relations with Russia and removed the head of the security policy head in the Austrian Ministry of Defense, who advises military leadership and minister of defense. Reports about it reports Financial Times.
also revealed his connection with the former Wirecard Manager Jan Marsalec. The publication notes that Gustene allocated funds from the budget for projects in which Marsalki participated, they also saw several times. The charges against Gustene did not put forward, and he himself said that “contacts with Russia were exclusively official and occurred in accordance with the orders.”
Now Gustene occupies a “indefinite research position” at the Academy of National Defense, newspaper notes. Also, the military insists that he changed the place of work at his own request.
The former member of the Board of Directors of the German payment system Wirecard Jan Marsalek is called one of the most wanted criminals of the world. According to Kurier, he boasted before the bankers in London the secret document, which the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) prepared after the poisoning of the former employee of the GRU Sergei Skyrinal and his daughter of Yulia in Salisbury. In the document, among other things, the formula “Novika” was indicated.
Marsalkie, together with the head of Wirecard Marcus Brown, was one of the key figures of the payment system, which was included in the list of most technologically in Europe. In June 2020, during the inspection of the National Regulator, a lack of assets by 1.9 billion euros was revealed. In connection with the inability to fulfill obligations to creditors by 3.5 billion euros, the company was forced to file a claim for its own bankruptcy.
Interpol declared her hunting. The exact location of Marsalek is unknown. In the summer of 2020, information appeared that he could escape to Russia. In the country, allegedly got through Belorussia, where it flew on a private jet.