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Has a former employee of AfD politician Maximilian Krah forwarded sensitive data to China? At the beginning of the trial, a lawyer rejects these allegations. The accused is silent.
In the trial of an ex-employee of the then AfD European MP Maximilian Krah, the defense rejected the allegations that the accused worked as an agent for a Chinese secret service. Jian G.’s lawyer said at the trial start at the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Dresden that the activity of his client was not geared to pass on information. He never agreed.
The defendant German does not want to comment on the allegations. His lawyer represented him as a committed employee of Krah’s. It will be shown whether his client was “007 or only 08/15”.
As an assistant to Krah’s office, the man was mainly busy with foreign trade, the lawyer said. His area of responsibility also included relationships with China because of his origin and language skills. In this context he had discussions. It cannot be ruled out that his interlocutors had had connections to a Chinese secret service.
The accused is said to have spied on China since 2002
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As early as 2002, G. is said to have been an employee of a Chinese secret service from 2002. As an assistant to Krah’s MPs in the European Parliament, he collected information from September 2019 until his arrest in April 2024 and sometimes passed down confidential documents to Chinese bodies. He also compiled personal information about AfD leadership staff and spied out Chinese dissidents.
With an application, GS wanted to achieve defense lawyers that evidence that was obtained from the monitoring of his client would not be used in the process. He had expressed doubts as to whether these were legally raised. However, the judges saw no clues and rejected the application.
Accomplice is said to have delivered data from the airport
The co -accused alleged accomplice of G., Jaqi X., accuse the investigators of having worked on the accused. The Chinese worked for a logistics service company at Leipzig Airport, she is said to have repeatedly transmitted data about flights, freight and passengers to the man – especially for the transport of armaments.
Co -accused does not want to have known anything about agent activity
However, the woman said she knew nothing about the possible agent activity of the Krah employee for the Chinese secret service. At the start of the trial, Jaqi X. admitted that she passed on information to Jian G. because he campaigned for good relationships between China and Germany as part of his work in the European Parliament and with “his party”, the AfD. She found that well.
According to an admission that her lawyer read, the woman is not interested in politics despite her membership in the China Communist Party. She got to know the later Krah employee after she came to Germany in 2015. He had contacted her via the Chinese app Wechat. After a short love relationship, both stayed in touch with a longer interruption.
Particular interest in information with a military reference
Under the pretext of wanting to improve the relationships between Leipzig Airport to Chinese airports, her ex-lover finally asked her for information. He said special interest in information with a military reference, it said.
When she told of her concerns about the outbreak of the Russian attack war in Ukraine, G. assured that he was committed to an end to war with “his party”. Arms deliveries to Ukraine are bad, G. said according to the co -accused. If she sees information about it, she should let him know.
First doubts about questions about Rheinmetall delivery
From the summer of 2023, the woman according to her own information passed on the corresponding data. She got doubts when her ex-lover on the passenger list of a charter flight that was supposed to transport military vehicles from the armaments manufacturer Rheinmetall to Portsmouth. Ultimately, despite her concern, she sent the list of data further before personal consequences.
According to his own, X. his own statement only found out about the alleged agent activity of her acquaintance when the media reported on his arrest. “I didn’t know or know that he is spy,” said the read outer admission.
In the trial of the man and the co -accused, 13 negotiation dates are scheduled until the end of September. Krah was a member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2025 and is now a member of the Bundestag.
dpa
Source: Stern

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