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NEWS: Ex-Wirecard exec Jan Marsalek linked to Russia’s ‘Smart’ money laundering network

Jan Marsalek (left) and Ekaterina Zhdanova

By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent

LAW enforcement has linked Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek to ‘Smart’, a Russian notorious money laundering network.

Russian intelligence tried to use ‘Smart’ as a way of providing funding to Marsalek’s Bulgarian spies, according to the UK’s NCA (National Crime Agency).

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