A court in Eastern city of Dresden began hearing two people on suspicion of spying for China.
The German (AFD) party is accused of passing the Chinese from 2002, one of the defendants, one of the former assistants of a lawful option for the party.
What are the allegations?
Under the German privacy laws, the former AFD colleague, identified as only Zian ji, is accused of providing Chinese intelligence for decades.
The period including recent times when he worked for the Maximilian Krhage, a member of the European Parliament for a far-flung popular popular party.
The prosecutors in Dresseden accused Zian of giving information about the debate and decisions in the European Parliament along with other information. He is suspected of illegally reaching over 500 documents, of which Parliament, of which was a member of his boss Krha 2019 and 2025, classified as “particularly sensitive”.
In April 2024, arrested in East German city of Dresden.
It is therefore possible that the information collected by Gian ji includes sensitive details about the functioning of AFD, whose revelation can prove to be an embarrassment for the party. However, Krah has told the news magazine mirror That he never discussed some internal problems with the defendant.
The second defendant, named only Jackie X, worked in a company, which provided the leapzig airport with logistics services. He is Jian. Flights and passengers are accused of helping obtaining information, what to do with the transport of defense equipment.
The Krha Himafale Money is subject to a separate investigation on the suspicion of londoring and corruption, which is partially associated with the firms associated with Gian ji.
Hey comments were at the center of a scam, which seemed to reduce the severity of the notorious SS of crime committees, but still sit as the AFD member of the German Lower House, or Bundestag.
What did you say in court?
At the beginning of his test, Gian ji denied allegations of espionage for China. His defense counsel dismissed the allegations in the court, saying that Zee never agreed to pass any information.
DW correspondent Matthew Moore was present in the court for proceedings.
Jian ji slowly entered the court, Moore said, wore a mask to hide his face from the cameras.
Moore said, “His death seriously believed the allegations,” Moore said.
As a committed employee, G. Mainly worked on foreign trade, the lawyer said. Given his background and language skills, he is responsible for management of relations with China and Nayak.
Raksha admitted that si. Some of the people interacted.
Meanwhile, the alleged partner jaqi x. Testified that she was unaware of any intelligence link between Gian ji and Chinese officials. However, he confessed to passing the information because he worked in the European Parliament and in his words, was committed to promoting strong relations between China and Germany through AFD.
In a statement read in court, X told the judges that he was concerned with G around 2015 shortly after going to Germany.
Agreement for the DW correspondent, he said that he was “passionate with money” and was desk for him as some “living in darkness”.
How long will the trial load be?
Federal prosecutors have considered the detective case as “particularly serious” as “particularly serious”, citing widespread Chinese monitoring activities targeting Germany and the European Union.
“The case is exemplary for China’s intelligence efforts related to political, economic and military matters in Germany,” federal prosecutor Stephen Morassor said on the occasion of testing in DressDen. Hey detective AFD leadership supervision to track movements.
The test in the high regional court of Dresden is expected to run with a 13 -day hearing by the end of September.
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Edited by: Wesley Rahan