2024-04-25 07:26:53
An employee of the bureau of one of the German members of the European Parliament was detained in Dresden in eastern Germany on suspicion of allegedly collaborating with Chinese intelligence services.
As Day.Az reports, this was reported by the Federal Prosecutor General’s Office in Karlsruhe.
Earlier, the Zeit newspaper, citing its own sources, wrote that we are talking about an assistant to the deputy from the right-wing Alternative for Germany Maximilian Kra, who heads the right-wing party list in the elections to the European Parliament. The prosecutor’s report does not contain such clarifications.
The German Prosecutor General’s Office claims that the detainee “is an employee of the Chinese intelligence service.” “In January 2024, the accused several times conveyed to the customer information about negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament,” the statement says. He also allegedly collected information about opponents of the Chinese authorities living in Germany. A search was carried out in his apartment.
According to unofficial information from Zeit, we are talking about a 43-year-old native of China, who previously – after studying in Germany – managed to obtain a German passport. In 2019, he became one of Kra’s assistants after the politician won a seat in the European Parliament. Later, the suspect accompanied the deputy during a business trip to China.