How does one grow to be a spy? Sam speaks with a former Russian intelligence officer about how Marsalek may need been recruited. And to what ends.
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Hot Money, the award-winning podcast sequence from the Financial Times and Pushkin Industries, is again with a 3rd season.
In 2020, the Financial Times uncovered a €2bn fraud at Wirecard, a high-flying German fintech. Many thought that was the tip of the story.
But for FT reporter Sam Jones, it was just the start. This season on Hot Money: Agent of Chaos, Sam investigates Wirecard’s chief working officer who vanished simply as Wirecard collapsed — and who turned out to even be a Russian spy.
From an Ibizan sting operation to an tried takeover of the Austrian intelligence service, his reporting spirals right into a world of warlords, espionage and disinformation.
All in an try to reply two questions: who’s the actual Jan Marsalek? And what does his secret life reveal in regards to the highly effective forces he serves?
New episodes of the eight-part season will drop each Tuesday.
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