Previously on Hot Money. I don't know. It's a kind of almost like a a Sharon Stone moment from Basic Instinct, you know, the plot of Basic Instinct where she uh she murders her husband, but uh uh but that's also the plot of the book she's written.So, it couldn't possibly be true. Do you know about this life-sized Trump figure in the office and his in Marshall's office and his um altar of of Russian officers caps and shanka kind of Yeah. Yeah.All those heads. Yeah. I think the biggest tragedy of Yan Masale i ...

What does it take to lead two lives. In 2020, the Financial Times exposed the German financial payments giant Wire Card as a huge corporate con. The biggest fraud in German history.But it was also the beginning of a more elusive tale. A story about Ward's chief operating officer, Yan Marcel. Young, charismatic, wealthy, a model of modern German corporate success.a fraudster and a spy. My name is Sam Jones and I'm the Financial Times's European security correspondent. I was the first journalist to expose Yan ...