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Markus Braun

Markus Braun

Austrian entrepreneur and former CEO of WirecardWikipedia

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Oct 25, 2026

Bill HannaHOST
15:07
And because of the mounting of all these allegations and then the report from Ernst & Young at that time, then Buffen files a criminal complaint against Marcus Brown, who was the chief executive officer of Wirecard.
Bill HannaHOST
15:20
And then the police, the German police goes over to arrest Marcus Braun and he's placed into custody.
Bill HannaHOST
15:27
And then immediately after that, and also in June of 2020, then Wirecard comes out publicly and says that there is a two or $2.1 billion that is missing or unaccounted for from its balance sheet.
Bill HannaHOST
15:40
And obviously when that happens, all of the creditors that the company owes money to comes knocking looking for their money and basically the file or Wirecard files for insolvency to protect itself from all of these creditors that are looking for their money.
Pav GillGUEST
23:20
The other board members were not interested.
Pav GillGUEST
23:22
The CEO was apparently saying, where's my time being wasted over 30, 50 million euro invoices? And then the COO, who's currently the most wanted man in Europe, his name is Jan Marsalek.
Pav GillGUEST
23:37
We're going to flash this guy out
Chris HensonHOST
23:39
now.
Chris HensonHOST
24:10
Okay, fine.
Chris HensonHOST
24:11
He had a pig with him.
Pav GillGUEST
24:13
So he's a CEO.
Pav GillGUEST
24:15
CEO, yeah.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
7:15
And I have a feeling that this is just the start.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
7:18
I previously talked about the Wirecard fraud, where CEO Marcus Braun boasted about having advanced proprietary AI throughout their fintech products and services.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
7:27
In reality, it was just spreadsheets.
Dagogo AltraideHOST
7:30
In the end, there was $2 billion missing from the books, but that was a story for a different day.

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