Thread by @ScottMStedman

THREAD/ Watch this space. I've been told by multiple people that Akhavan is the lynchpin of Wirecard's massive fraud in the US. wsj.com/articles/men-a…

From WSJ: "The government also recently indicated, in a pretrial filing related to a grand-jury subpoena sent to Mastercard, that there is a “broader, ongoing criminal investigation into other individuals and conducted related to, but not encompassed by, the charged scheme.”"

I reported last month that investigators are zeroing-in on Akhavan in the Wirecard investigation. It is massive and complex. I acquired Suspicious Activity Reports on Akhavan: forensicnews.net/us-authorities…

Akhavan had numerous companies with millions of dollars at Wirecard Bank, which was plundered by suspected Russian intelligence asset Jan Marsalek.

Not only that, but Akhavan's companies assisted with payment processing for Wirecard, according to multiple sources. Akhavan and Jan first met over a decade ago and have since been extremely close.

Their relationship was so close, that people who worked with Wirecard were regularly told to run ideas by/consult with "Jan and Ray".

In emails published by @hmtillack, @t_stoneman, and other intrepid German journalists, Ray and Jan call each other "love" and "darling".

All told, the Wirecard fraud was over $2 billion. Marsalek disappeared, likely to Russia. But a key US-based insider who may have facilitated much of the wrongdoing is currently sitting at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.