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 ...

What has this 76-year-old retired historian been doing in the United States? Were you spying for the Chinese government? According to US intelligence, he was part of a massive network of covert agents recruited by China to spy for its Ministry of State Security. This is in scale and in scope and in brazeness the biggest espionage operation against the US in its history. Palmer Lucky may not look like your typical defense industry executive. But the 32-year-old billionaire is the founder of Andre whose line ...

According to the latest assessment from America's intelligence agencies, China remains the most active and persistent cyber threat to the US. Its hackers have infiltrated the US government, the private sector, and critical infrastructure like water systems and power grids. Hacking, however, has not replaced Beijing's pursuit of old-fashioned human intelligence.China's Communist Party remains intent on leveraging a worldwide network of covert agents to monitor and influence events outside its own borders and ...

60 Minutes overtime. This week on 60 Minutes, we report on China's spies operating in the US. China's main spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, or MSS, is now the largest and most active spy agency in the world.The United States is its second biggest target. The first, China's own people, including those living abroad, right here in the US. Chinese people on foreign soil are a risk to the regime.And they are a risk because they could be plotting. Uh it's happened before. They could be agents of the e ...