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One particular trip stands out for its party-like country-hopping nature: on 29 September 2016 Marsalek flew in from Munich to Moscow at 1:55 am, only to depart for Athens at 7:58 that same morning. The next day he flew back from Greece – this time into St. Petersburg, where he stayed only 5-and-half hours, before taking off back to Greece – but this time to the vacation island of Santorini. He changed three different private jets during this wind-whirl of a trip.

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While KPMG was working frantically on the final version of its report, EY stepped up its scrutiny of Wirecard’s Philippine bank accounts. Unable to travel due to the pandemic, it held a video conference with the two banks in the Philippines on April 24. The auditors asked the bank employees to hold their IDs to the camera. While the call was ongoing, EY tried to verify the identities, but could not find any of the people on social media. Some senior EY employees now suspect that actors might have been posing as bank employees during the video call, possibly in a mock-up bank branch.