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Interesting story - sounds like Wirecard may have been a Russian version of the BCCI. For comparison:

https://irp.fas.org/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/11intel.htm

> "The unofficial story of BCCI's links to U.S. intelligence is complicated by the inability of investigators to determine whether private persons affiliated with U.S. intelligence were undertaking actions such as selling U.S. arms to a foreign government outside ordinary channels on their own behalf, or ostensibly under sanction of a U.S. government agency, policy, or operation."




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