{"id":319663,"date":"2025-08-05T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319663\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:17:10","slug":"far-right-german-lawmakers-aide-on-trial-over-accusations-of-spying-for-china-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319663\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right German lawmaker\u2019s aide on trial over accusations of spying for China \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German prosecutors have also charged an apparent accomplice, Jaqi X., who worked for a logistics company at Leipzig airport in Germany. She is suspected of providing Jian G. with information about flights, cargo, and passengers \u2014 in particular, on the transportation of military equipment and people linked to a German arms company.<\/p>\n<p>Jian G. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-arrests-eu-parliament-afd-staffer-afd-spy-china-jian-g-mep-krah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was arrested<\/a> in April 2024 and has remained in pretrial detention, while Jaqi X. has been in pretrial detention since September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Krah, who was AfD\u2019s top candidate for last year\u2019s European election, is himself subject to a separate investigation over allegations that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-mep-maximilian-krah-alternative-for-germany-afd-russia-china-payments-spying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accepted payments from Russia and China<\/a> during his work as a member of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Krah denied having any knowledge of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/belgium-cops-raid-eu-parliament-mep-office-russiagate-probe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">erstwhile assistant\u2019s activities<\/a> and said he was \u201cdeceived.\u201d He will testify in Jian G.\u2019s trial as a witness.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will continue until the end of September, with further hearings planned for this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German prosecutors have also charged an apparent accomplice, Jaqi X., who worked for a logistics company at Leipzig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[4328,1395,2002,2000,8812,299,1824,23762,32411,2597],"class_list":{"0":"post-319663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-espionage","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eu-china-relations","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-logistics","16":"tag-maximilian-krah","17":"tag-military"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114975882953126944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}