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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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In our season finale, Sam discovers a different narrative about Marsalek’s life in Russia. And a tip from long ago resurfaces.
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0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. Pushkin. |
0:26.1 | Previously on Hot Money. |
0:28.8 | First of all, I thought someone might have been murdered, but I did think, well, there's no ambulances or anything, and there's no police cars. |
0:36.7 | And then I saw these men or women all blacked |
0:40.3 | out with barclad was on. |
0:43.3 | Masleck really was like a sort of ghost that haunted this trial. |
0:47.3 | He was clearly the organising mind and he was there in black and white with these telegram messages. |
1:09.3 | If I was a border control guard though, I would notice the expiry date on that check passport. |
1:12.8 | Passports never last more than 10 years, do they? |
1:15.9 | Right. I mean, I don't, I didn't know that. That doesn't look right. |
1:23.3 | I'm back with Paul Murphy, my old editor and the person who first put me onto the Jan Marseleck story. |
1:28.6 | And I've brought copies of some identity documents, passports and a few photos. |
1:32.4 | Konstantin Vladimirovich Bayazov. |
1:35.8 | I've got a picture of him here dressed in a kind of very ornate gold, |
1:38.3 | orthodox priest's kind of mantle, |
1:40.3 | carrying a candle. |
1:44.0 | Oh no, it's not a candle, it's a chalice covered with a cloth. Looks like a sort of slightly |
1:45.9 | more weathered Marselegg, but they do look similar, similar kind of face shape. |
1:52.6 | It do, actually. Yeah. So basically he's nicked his identity. |
1:56.1 | If he's traveling to places like Dubai as a Russian Orthodox priest. That's going to kind of crimp his |
2:04.0 | operation. I have no idea if Marselech actually traveled anywhere dressed in the full vestments |
2:11.1 | of the Russian Orthodox Church, but I do know this is one of the identities he's been using in recent |
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