Money from Russia: Pressure on AfD politician Bystron grows | The Czech secret service apparently has audio recordings that seriously incriminate AfD politician Petr Bystron. The party leadership is demanding an explanation.

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1. >The AfD member of the Bundestag and candidate for the European elections, Petr Bystron, must explain his alleged links to a pro-Russian network to the party leadership. “We are demanding a statement and explanation from Petr Bystron,” AfD leader Tino Chrupalla told taz. He and his co-chair Alice Weidel had discussed this. Bystron is said to have received money from the network in Prague.
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   >The Czech news portal Deník N reports, citing government sources, that the Czech secret service has audio recordings that seriously incriminate Bystron. The head of the service, Michal Koudelka, has informed the Czech government about this, and five cabinet members are said to have confirmed this information to Deník N.
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   >Konstantin von Notz, Vice-Chairman of the Green parliamentary group in the Bundestag and Chairman of the Parliamentary Control Committee, is calling for clarification. “There are serious allegations in the room. We expect the facts of the case to be clarified in detail and all aspects of criminal law to be investigated swiftly,” von Notz told taz.
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   >On Wednesday, the Czech government announced the exposure of a Moscow-financed propaganda network that was using the Prague-based website “Voice of Europe” to create an atmosphere in the EU against supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia. The aim is also to influence the European elections in June.
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   >According to information from Denik N, money is also said to have been channelled to politicians from Germany, Belgium, France, Poland, Hungary and the Netherlands. As Der Spiegel reported last week, this also includes two European politicians from the AfD. The AfD’s leading candidate for the upcoming European elections, Maximilian Krah, had a spokesperson explain that he had appeared twice on the pro-Russian website, but had “of course not received any money” for this.
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   >Interviews with Bystron, who has Czech roots and is in second place on the AfD’s European list, could also be found on the “Voice of Europe” platform, in which he spread pro-Russian statements. Last week, Bystron labelled the accusation that he had accepted money for this as “defamation” and announced that he would take action against the authors of the text and the news portal. They have now followed up with the new research results.

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2. >AfD

   Surprising absolutely no-one

3. “The party leadership is demanding an explanation”

   – how could you be so careless when hiding your tracks!

4. The Afd is a traitorous dog shit party that should be banned everywhere. If the Germans can’t do it the other EU states should declare their leadership personae non gratae and prevent them from entering any other EU country.

5. He is far from the only ruZZian asset in his party.