WIRECARD TRIAL, DECEMBER 3, 2025

Day 178: The toddler in the witness stand and the bombshell revelation from Digital Sales.

Why Michaela Krassl (née Masurka) made today one of the trial’s most significant days The Stadelheim courtroom had never been this noisy – yet never this revelatory. A 37-year-old unemployed mother entered the witness stand with her sniffling two-year-old: "No babysitter, no other solution," she explained. The child darted amidst cables, squealing, giggling, crying, and intermittently dozing off. The court allowed it – one of the few genuinely human scenes in this multi-billion-euro fraud trial.

But what Michaela Krassl (née Masurka) – former Key Account Manager in Wirecard’s Digital Sales division – revealed next was anything but cute. It constituted the clearest evidence to date that the fraud didn’t begin in 2015 with alleged third-party partners in Asia, but years earlier at the very heart of the corporation: within the high-risk sales division in Aschheim, near Munich.

The most important statement of the day in one sentence: Wirecard's digital sales division was the real control center for everything that was later disguised as “Asia business.” Who is Michaela Krassl?

- April 2010 until insolvency in 2020 at Wirecard Bank and Wirecard Global Sales; after the insolvency, she was taken over by Banco Santander until this takeover entity also went under without a sound and went out of business itself.

- First customer relations, later key account manager in digital sales (high-risk: adult entertainment, gaming, crypto)

- Primarily looked after the customers of Markus Fuchs, Erkin Sahin, and Brigitte Häuser-Axtner

- Now unemployed, came with a small child because, as mentioned, there was no babysitter

The names that came up today—and that really hurt:

- Brigitte Häuser-Axtner (BHA): Head of Digital Sales, had a lot of direct contact with Jan Marsalek

- Markus Fuchs: “Very, very good friends” with Ellbeck (Compliance), “often been to the US” (!)

- Erkin Sahin: Also frequently in America, looked after Ray Akawan companies

- “Cat” (cat@cestuff.com): Mysterious US contact person behind CE Cash and many Akawan companies

- Ray Akawan: US porn king with hundreds of similar websites

- Eldad Diosh & Christian Bauer (Payeasy): Brought in “important customers” – Brigitte Häuser-Axtner and Marsalek were direct contacts

PS: James Kawaja (Allied Wallet): Will be questioned on December 10, 2025 (!)

The five burning issues:

- Wirecard wanted exactly the customers that no one else wanted

- "Other banks didn't take these customers

- We offered accounts and acquiring from a single source." Rejection rate: perhaps 4–5 out of 50

- CE Cash, Ray Akawan, and the “company group.”

- Hundreds of accounts, similar but definitely not identical websites, as judges and prosecutors have been trumpeting for years.

- Krassl: “I thought it all belonged together somehow.” She merely procured KYC documents—verification was a matter for compliance (Ellbeck, Nebelungen).

- Eldad Diosh and Christian Bauer brought in customers. Brigitte Häuser-Axtner and Jan Marsalek were in direct contact. Krassl: “In the end, Häsuer-Axtner was no longer in Germany.”

- Marsalek was a regular guest at Digital Sales. “Every week, sometimes every day at the coffee machine – with Markus Fuchs and Erkin.”

- Chargeback lists existed – and were not ignored. Markus Fuchs and BHA kept lists of customers who had excessive chargeback rates. If someone exceeded the limit → they were officially terminated. Krassl did not know what happened after that (transfer to Payeasy, Senyo, Al-Alam).

Conclusion:

Michaela Krassl was not a puppet master. She was the honest, fully committed mother in the background who still has an honest, authentic emotional outburst here in court today when she states that “I simply found out about the bankruptcy from the press at the time.”

For years, she did exactly what was put on her desk—and noticed everything.

Those who were in the courtroom today understood: The fraud did not begin in Manila or Dubai.

It began in Aschheim, in Wirecard's digital sales department, in 2015 at the latest—probably even earlier. And at the top, they knew exactly who they were doing business with.

The trial continues. But today, a huge step toward the truth was taken – with a squealing toddler and all.

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