Overview

• The Interior Ministry in Vienna said a meticulous, comprehensive assessment is underway in coordination with the DSN that could lead to a request to revoke Marsalek’s Austrian nationality.
• Officials cited provisions in citizenship law that allow loss of nationality for serving a foreign state through espionage, entering another country’s military, or unauthorized acquisition of a second passport.
• Recent media investigations published photos said to show Marsalek heading to FSB headquarters and reported more than 300 instances of his phone being located near the Lubyanka in 2024.
• Reporting also alleges he used multiple aliases, including a Russian passport under the name Alexander Michaelowitsch Nelidow, and traveled to eastern Ukraine including Russian‑occupied Mariupol.
• Munich prosecutors continue to investigate suspected organized fraud and serious breach of trust, German authorities maintain a wanted notice and a legal‑assistance request to Moscow, and Russian officials officially deny knowing his whereabouts.