Apparently in a bizarre attempt to demonstrate his connection to intelligence operations, missing Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek showed London financial traders documents linking a Russian nerve agent to the 2018 attacks on two Russians in the United Kingdom, according to the Financial Times.
During meetings in the summer of 2018, Marsalek reportedly showed traders information linking the use of the Russia chemical weapon Novichok to the attack on Russian dissident Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, UK.
The 50-pages of classified documents contained the chemical formula for Novichok and details of the investigation then being conducted by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons into the attack in Salisbury.
Both Skripal and his daughter survived the poisoning, but a third person, Dawn Sturgess, of nearby Amesbury, died after coming in contact with a container that was exposed to or held the Novichok.
The 40-year-old Marsalek disappeared last month after the news broke about the financial problems facing Wirecard, an e-payments provider founded in 1999 that quickly collapsed recently. Reports have him spotted in Indonesia or other locations in southeast Asia.