Wirecard’s Former COO Suspected of Being a Russian Spy

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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P.M. Edition for Dec. 15. Jan Marsalek, the former COO of the now-defunct payment system Wirecard, is already wanted for $2 billion that went missing from the company’s balance sheet. Now, intelligence officials suspect he had likely been a Russian agent for nearly a decade. Germany correspondent Bojan Pancevski has the story. And the Israeli military says it accidentally killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza. Plus, the U.S. homeless count surges 12%. Reporter Jon Kamp has more. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.2	And a Wall Street Journal scoop, intelligence officials say the former CEO of Wirecard
0:45.3	is now suspected of being a Russian spy.
0:48.1	People thought he was just kind of showing off.
0:50.7	And he was this eccentric millionaire who was telling tall tales about espionage.
0:55.4	He's a guy who's involved in all these shady business and he's actually telling people about it. Plus Rudy Giuliani is hit with a $148 million verdict for defaming election workers.
1:06.0	It's Friday December 15th. I'm Anne-Marie Fertoli for the Wall Street Journal.
1:10.4	This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and
1:13.8	business stories that moved the world today.
1:17.0	The number of homeless people living in America has surged to its highest level on record.
1:28.0	New data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development shows more than 653,000 people were homeless
1:34.9	early this year. That's a 12% gain since last year, marking the biggest increase and
1:39.7	highest tally since the US first published comparable data for 2007. Joining me now with is
1:45.0	the Wall Street Journal reporter John Camp.
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