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A man who worked for a prominent German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been charged with spying for China for more than four years, authorities said Tuesday.

The office of the federal prosecutor accused Jian Guo of working for a Chinese intelligence service and of repeatedly passing on information on negotiations and decisions in the EU Parliament between September 2019 and April 2024, when he was arrested.

He also allegedly snooped on Chinese dissidents in Germany.

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The federal prosecutor alleges that Guo obtained more than 500 documents, including some that the EU Parliament had classified as particularly sensitive, for the Chinese intelligence service, his employer since 2002.

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    20 hours ago

    Woah, a foreign government attempting to interfere with the electoral process of a sovereign country by funding an extremist right wing party who intends to destroy the country from the inside-out?

    Now where have I heard that one before…

    I wonder how many other spies there are just in the AfD.