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Suspicion of espionage at AfD: Party leadership was allegedly warned years ago

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Published: April 24th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

The AfD’s top European candidate has already attracted attention for his many China-friendly positions. Now his employee has been arrested on espionage charges.

The AfD party leadership may have known about the possible involvement of Maximilian Krah’s employee, Jian G., with China for years. The European delegation is said to have sent a letter to Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel at the beginning of Krah’s term of office with information about his employee Jian G. However, as Krah was running for mayor of Dresden in 2022, the party leadership ignored the information.

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