{"id":415786,"date":"2025-09-11T12:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415786\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:38:17","slug":"german-parliament-revokes-immunity-of-far-right-ex-mep-with-china-links-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415786\/","title":{"rendered":"German parliament revokes immunity of far-right ex-MEP with China links \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German Bundestag on Thursday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/dokumente\/textarchiv\/2025\/kw37-de-immunitaet-1108370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revoked the immunity<\/a>\u00a0of controversial far-right politician Maximilian Krah as authorities intensified a corruption probe.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from the Dresden Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office told POLITICO that it was investigating \u201ca member of the German Bundestag\u201d over money-laundering and corruption, involving payments from China.<\/p>\n<p>Krah, who is a prominent figure within the Alternative for Germany party, has served as a member of the German parliament since February\u2019s federal election. Before that he was an MEP in Brussels, where he was investigated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/belgium-germany-police-mep-maximilian-krah-china-espionage-alternative-for-germany-afd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China espionage probe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German Bundestag on Thursday\u00a0revoked the immunity\u00a0of controversial far-right politician Maximilian Krah as authorities intensified a corruption probe.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[1395,2575,2000,299,2816,11070,1824,2003,32411],"class_list":{"0":"post-415786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-corruption","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european-politics","13":"tag-german-politics","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-law-enforcement","16":"tag-maximilian-krah"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115185706905217472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415786","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=415786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}