Thread by @FabioDeMasi

Congrats to the many good people such as @FD who contributed to the @netflix documentary on the #wirecardskandal They deserve all the praise for their hard work. A journalist asked me yesterday how I felt about not having participated. I won't lie. I do

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have an ego and after many years of hard labour on #Wirecard and being probably the only lawmaker in Germany who consistently warned of Wirecard before its demise and continued investigating the scandal after elections (and after leaving parliament) I would have loved being able

to provide my perspective as well. I have been approached by a Netflix production once (though I am unsure whether it was this one but I believe so) and they cancelled the interview (I even agreed to shoot during private stay in Italy , maybe it was too risky because of pandemic

But beyond my indisputable ego😉 there is a political point here too. I have been the only MP who at least according to the public available information was subject to screening by Marsaleks aides in the Austrian secret services and under the radar of former German secret

service coordinator Schmidbauer and who tried (beyond investigating the financial scandal) to dig deeper on the secret service links to Wirecard regardless of which side of the game being affected. I have been as well the only sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/wir…

MP who had any interest in investigating the links of the previous owner of German cyber security provider to the Government to Marsalek, his aides in secret services and government in Austria and a Russian oligarch capital.de/wirtschaft-pol…

Also large part of the media ignored my consistent warnings about these structures (even when it came to former military advisor to Ms Merkel, General Vad, and others with few exceptions such as @t_stoneman @hmtillack & @BenWeiser4 @FelixHoltermann et al.

Why am I pointing this out? Nearly all parties in the German parliament had involvements with #Wirecard (bank accounts at Wirecard Bank, lobbyism with connections to Hambach & Hambach/Wirecard for liberalization of online gambling, praising the short selling ban etc)

While SPD was responsible for oversight in the ministry of finance, CDU and CSU politicians lobbied on behalf of Wirecard and there were even attempts to lobby a Green President of a southern federal state tagesschau.de/investigativ/n…

What truly bothers me however is that so far most accounts on the Wirecard scandal only paint half the picture. While it is undoubtedly true that Marsalek and Wirecard had connections to Russia, there are a lot of strong indicators to suggest that the same is true for Western

intelligence services. Interestingly, Wirecard only started to crumble when Marsalek apparently chose to work with the Russians. As we can see from the various media scandals in Germany we shouldn't also trust a company such as Netflix to provide us with the whole picture. I reme

in example how Netflix starred Lava Jato on the Brazilian corruption saga accusing @LulaOficial of many crimes he had been later cleared off and that were tied to highly corrupt right wing elements of Bolsonaro. So if you hope to understand the world of financial crime and

secret services don't trust corporate entertainment (alone). There is more to discover. But how said Gill Scott-heron once: "The revolution will not be televised". And Common said: "One day it will all make sense!"

Ps. However I am happy to see that my rather ironic bonmot „Alpen Steve Jobs“ for Markus Braun made it into the highly intresting documentary

Ps Ps. I also may add that the view mentioned by other MPs in the documentary that nobody in Germany would have imagined gangsters working at Wirecard is wrong. I did 👇🏽

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And those were the reactions among others by a local CDU politician