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Shortly before last year’s European elections in Germany, the assistant of parliament Maximilian was arrested as a suspect in espionage in favor of China. The news was shocked by both Berlin and Brussels, since the German member of the parliamentation was the head of the distant alternative alternative to Deutschland (AFD). His assistant, Jian Go, who was fired shortly after his arrest, was accused of hired Chinese secret services. German prosecutors claim that they presented about 500 confidential entries in China and provided information about the internal conspiracy of European legislation.
The trial of Go began on Tuesday in the eastern city of Dresden.
Who is Maximilian Kra?
Kra is a German lawyer and politician and a well -known official of the German AFD party. He was elected MEP in 2019 and was a leading party candidate in the 2024 European elections, where AFD reached the recording and took second place after Christian democrats. In 2024, Kra said in an interview that all Waffen SS members should not be criminals. His conflicting comments about the Nazi era, as well as accusations against his assistant led to the dismissal of his party from the European Parliament on Personality and Democracy. The name KRA also appeared on a scandal with the so -called Russia, where the European launch attitudes of public opinion around the Voice of Europe promoted distant and professional narratives. Kra denied that he received some financing from Russia, but admitted that the FBI interrogated him for his Russian connections. He also voted against various resolutions in the European parliament, criticizing the state of human rights of China and warned from the interruption of financial ties with Beijing. Kra abandoned his term in the European parliament in 2025 after he was elected a member of the Budestag.
Who is Jian Go?
Jiang Go, whose trial begins and is the main suspect in the scandal with Chinagat, is a citizen of China with 44 years with German citizenship. He met Kra, working as a businessman in Germany. After he became a member of Europe. Kra hired him in Brussels in the European parliament as his accredited assistant. According to the German authorities, he repeatedly transmitted information about the discussions and decisions of the European parliament to his client. After the arrest, Kra said that he did not know about the spy events of his employee and allowed his contract.
As for espionage?
According to German prosecutors, Go held about 500 confidential documents of the European Parliament and handed them to China. He allegedly collected personal information from the AFD leadership, including the leaders of the party of Alice Weidel and Tino Khopall. And, perhaps, this is a spy of Chinese opposition dissidents living in Germany. As a MEP, the former Khar employer was a member of the Human Rights Committee on Human Rights, Security, Defense and International Trade. Soon after his arrest in the European parliament, the offices of Jian Go and Maximilian Krah in Brussels were investigated. China denied what kind of participation in espionage events and said that it was part of the Diffamation campaign against Beijing. The lawsuit against Go can reveal more detailed information about its activities and the nature of the information provided.
Why does it matter in Brussels?
In recent years, European institutions and, in particular, parliament, have suffered from scandals related to the influence of marketing, in particular, allegations of the illegal efforts of foreign powers to collect information or the impact of decision -making. In February 2024, the European parliament began an official investigation of the Latvian legislator Tatzhan Zhdanok. According to the Russian research newspaper, he worked as an agent of Russian secret services.
Allegedly in the Federal Security Service (FSB) from 2004 to 2017 he worked in the Federal Security Service (FSB). It was argued that her task was to create a professional climate in the Baltic region and provide detailed information about her work in the European parliament.
Qatar and Morocco were also accused of trying to influence the officials and lobbyists of the European parliament in exchange for money in research, which were begun by the Belgian authorities in 2022 for corruption and reckoning of money, and many arrests were made. Both countries, former members of Europe and assistants in the front line, rejected the charges. The European parliament, in response, strengthened its struggle with foreign mixing and introduced new ethical rules.