A former aide to a member of parliament for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party has been sentenced to almost five years in prison for spying on behalf of China.
Jian Guo was convicted on Tuesday of acting as an agent for the Chinese intelligence service while working for Maximilian Krah, a former member of the European parliament who now sits for the AfD in Germany’s Bundestag.
The case has stirred concern about the extent to which Europe is being targeted by Chinese spymasters.
Guo, a German national, was found to have gathered information including confidential documents when he worked in Krah’s office in t
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