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Austria’s Big Russian Spy Scandal Gets Worse

Austria’s Big Russian Spy Scandal Gets Worse

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John Schindler
Jan 26, 2021
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The sudden collapse last summer of Wirecard, the German online payment processing firm, once a European tech darling, was a big enough story just on the surface. Over $2 billion was discovered missing when the company imploded last June, and its Austrian CEO, Markus Braun, stepped down in disgrace. Nobody knew where the missing billions had gone, while …

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