Episode 7: From Russia With Love
Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
Pushkin Industries & Financial Times
4.6 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A Marsalek-backed ring of operatives goes on trial in the UK for espionage. A treasure trove of text messages reveals their inner workings.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Previously on hot money. |
| 0:25.7 | The evidence that led to the raid was incredibly weak and should have never led to this raid to happen. |
| 0:31.5 | And we are still suffering from this raid. |
| 0:35.0 | If you want to guess about how worse would an intelligence asset like Marselech be, |
| 0:42.9 | then you would say, well, very worthy. |
| 0:47.1 | Very valuable. |
| 0:48.9 | Very valuable, yeah. |
| 0:52.8 | It's June 2022. Jan Marseleck is in Moscow. It's June 2022. |
| 0:55.7 | Jan Marseleck is in Moscow. |
| 0:57.7 | It's been almost two years since Wirecard was exposed as a fraud. |
| 1:02.1 | And during these two years, he's been in near constant contact with one person in particular, |
| 1:07.5 | via the secure messaging app, Telegram. |
| 1:11.0 | Right now, Marselech is asking this person if their regular courier can pick up something |
| 1:15.6 | very important for him, something he has a hankering for, dessert. |
| 1:20.9 | We're going to read out his messages for you. |
| 1:24.6 | On a personal note, would he have time to drop by the Sacher shop to buy two cakes for me? |
| 1:33.4 | Marseleck is after one of the most famous inventions of his home city, Sachertolder, chocolate cake. |
| 1:40.8 | From the moment he fled Europe, this person he's asking about the cake has been around to help him. |
| 1:46.8 | Life on the run hasn't always been easy for Marselech, |
| 1:49.5 | and this friend, he's tried when he can, to offer some reassurance. |
| 1:54.7 | Keep your chin up, he tells Marselech. |
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