There's a fairly weird story laid out this morning via Focus....over two scandals which up to this point....had no connection to each other.
I essayed a fair bit around three years ago over the Austrian scandal....where a video showed a big-wig of the Austrian government working on a 'deal' to give some special group insider access. This unfolded rather quickly, and caused the downfall of the Austrian government at the time. Austrians often refer to it as the 'Ibiza-affair'.
So there is a second scandal....'the Wirecard-affair' which came apart here in Germany within the past year. This centers on a commercial company which claimed they had x-amount of money in a overseas bank, and there was a billion-Euro of non-existent money listed on their books. In this case, there seems to be some characters who should have noticed this via past audits within the audit company (an outside organization) or by the German government itself.
These two scandals....up to this point....don't connect.
The suggestion here....there is a private detective who helped to arrange the video over the Austrian scandal. This same private detective has some relationship to Wirecard insiders. According to some German truth commission working on the whole Wirecard episode....they count up to four connections between the two scandals. So the truth commission would like for this private detective to appear and square away the connections. Whether he'll show up or not? Unknown.
What appears to be going on?
Someone paid the 'Ibiza-affair' team to build a fake background and lure the politicians into a 'trap'. The team didn't do it as a free service. No one says the amount....but it has to be a minimum of half-a-million Euro and it wouldn't shock me it this went to the 7-digit to 8-digit amount of money.
So, were the same supporters or backers of the Wirecard audit folks connected to the Ibiza-affair team?
Part of this Focus story suggests that 'something' leads back toward Russia (Moscow)....not necessarily the Kremlin but possibly to serious power-players in the financial markets.
I could see the scenario where those Russian oligarchs were arranging the political fallout in Austria (via the 'Ibiza-affair) and the Wirecard collapse.
The odds here that the truth commission will get anything out of this private detective? I'd give it almost zero odds. It might be interesting to know who paid the guy for the 'Ibiza-affair' video production, and it might explain some odd pieces to the story.
The odds of a third scandal falling into play? Oh please....don't even go and suggest that it gets worse.
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