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Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

Episode 8: Matryoshka

Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

Pushkin Industries & Financial Times

Technology, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Business, Society & Culture

4.6619 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

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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