AfD politician
Bundestag raises immunity from Maximilian Krah – police starts searching
It is getting serious for Maximilian Krah: The Bundestag lifted the immunity of the AfD politician on Thursday morning. Shortly afterwards the police started raid.
The Bundestag has lifted the immunity of the AfD politician Maximilan Krah and approved judicial searches and seizures. The plenum approved a corresponding application. Bundestag president Julia Klöckner (CDU) interrupted a debate about a nursing law for the short -term vote. Klöckner did not give the name of the person concerned, but he emerges from the document of the Bundestag.
Afterwards, office space of the accused in the German Bundestag in Berlin as well as living and business premises in Dresden and- with the support of Euro Just and the Belgian judiciary- were searched in Brussels, as the general prosecutor’s office in Dresden announced. The searches were ordered by the Dresden Higher Regional Court.
Investigations against Maximilian Krah in Dresden
According to information from the dpa news agency and the “Spiegel”, the Dresden public prosecutor is responsible for the procedure that is about this. The Dresden General Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation in May in connection with Chinese payments against the AfD politician Maximilian Krah in May. The authority said that she wanted to have the immunity of today’s Member of the Bundestag.
According to the information, the allegations of the crime refer to his earlier mandate activity as a member of the MEP. The authority now wants to determine whether “sufficient occasion exists to collect an indictment or the procedure should be hired.” Krah had rejected the allegations, but is currently not to be achieved for a statement.
Long -time employee of Krahs for allegations of espionage in court
A former and long -time employee of Krahs is currently on trial for accusation of agent activity for a Chinese secret service in Dresden. The general prosecutor accuses the accused of collecting information as an assistant in Krah’s then MPs in the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024 and partially passed on to Chinese bodies.
In the previous week, Krah had stated in the process of not knowing anything about the agent activity or membership of his former employee in China’s Communist Party. If you have a question about possible payments by the accused to him, Krah made use of his right to refuse to testify.
Note: This article has been updated.
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Source: Stern
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