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Yan Marlec’s story starts much earlier in life. Raised in Austria, the school dropout found early success in the tech industry, eventually becoming the Chief Operating Officer of Wirecard, a payment processing giant that presented itself as Germany's answer to PayPal. However, beneath the company’s impressive facade lay significant issues with fraud and embezzlement, culminating in Wirecard's shocking collapse in 2020 with a 1.9 billion Euro hole in its books.