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🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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In 2020, the Financial Times exposed a 2 billion euro fraud at Wirecard, a high-flying German fintech. Many thought that was the end of the story. But for reporter Sam Jones, it was just the beginning.
This season on Hot Money: Agent of Chaos, from Pushkin Industries and the Financial Times, Jones investigates Wirecard’s chief operating officer who vanished just as Wirecard collapsed. And turned out to also be a Russian spy.
Here’s episode 1. Listen to Hot Money: Agent of Chaos wherever you get your podcasts.
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0:00.0 | Pushkin |
0:07.0 | Hi, I'm Sam Jones, and I hope you don't mind me dropping in to give you a quick preview of my new podcast, Hot Money, Agent of Chaos. |
0:18.0 | It all started in 2020 when my colleagues at the Financial Times exposed the German company |
0:23.8 | wirecard as a huge fraud. |
0:26.4 | But underneath that, I discovered another more elusive tale. |
0:30.4 | Jan Marseleck was more than just Europe's biggest financial con artist. |
0:34.3 | He was someone who had other lives. |
0:37.3 | And his shadow, it seemed to appear in the most |
0:39.6 | unexpected places, in the investigation into a deadly poisoning, in the wake of an Austrian |
0:45.3 | political scandal, in Libya's refugee camps, with mercenaries in Syria, oligarchs on the French |
0:52.1 | Riviera, Bulgarian criminals in a disheveled English |
0:55.5 | seaside resort. I've been pulling together all these threads to try and understand who Yan Marseleck was |
1:02.0 | and what it is that connects them all. And I think I've got an explanation for you. It's a story that |
1:08.3 | says as much about our own society as it does about the wildlife |
1:12.1 | of one rogue individual. It's about power and corruption and the secret front line of a huge |
1:19.1 | geopolitical game that affects us all. I hope you enjoy this preview, and if you do, find |
1:25.8 | hot money, agent of chaos chaos wherever you listen to your |
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1:52.7 | On Medal of Honor, stories of courage, you'll hear about these heroes and what their stories tell us about the nature of bravery. |
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