New reports identify the online gambling kingping as the "single customer" behind Wirecard's fabricated business network.

In 2019, Wirecard began making headlines in the Financial Times as what would turn out to be one of the largest financial scandals in the world and the biggest financial scandal in postwar Germany.

The payment processor and financial services company, once praised as representing "the best interests of the German economy as a whole" by then German chancellor Angela Merkel, turned out to be a massive fraud. Over 1.9 Billion Euros of Wirecard funds never actually existed and over 20 Billion in investor funds were lost in a crime story nothing short of a true crime thriller, implicating intelligence agencies, high ranking politicians, and a network of shell companies spanning the globe. Wirecard's founder Markus Braun has since been standing trial in a German court, while his co-conspirator, Jan Marsalek, presumably disappeared to Russia with the help of the FSB, never to be seen again.

Then there's Calvin Ayre: The online gambling kingpin known as the most prominent backer of Craig Wright's BSV both in spirit and in finance, who is now alleged to have been the "single customer" behind Wirecard's fabricated third-party business network.

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