Espionage Arrests Hint at Dark Side of China-Europe Competition
- Prosecutors say the man was working for Chinese secret service
- Germany’s Faeser says ‘all connections’ must be investigated
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Police in Dresden detained an employee of Maximilian Krah, the far-right AfD’s lead candidate in the European Parliament elections, on suspicions he was spying for China.
Federal prosecutors suspect the man, whom they identified as Jian G., of working for the Chinese secret service, citing intelligence reports from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in a statement on Tuesday.