"Guo, a German national, was found to have gathered information including confidential documents when he worked in Krah's office in the European parliament between 2019 and 2024, and passed them on to Chinese authorities. He had denied the charges. The court in Dresden heard he had collected personal information about top AfD figures, including its leaders, Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, as well as keeping watch on Chinese dissidents in Europe."
"Sentencing Guo to four years and nine months in prison, the presiding judge, Hans Schluter-Staats, told him: There is no question that you were an employee of a Chinese intelligence service. A female Chinese accomplice, identified only as Yaqi X in line with German privacy laws, received a suspended sentence of one year and nine months. She admitted to having given Guo information about flights, cargo and passengers from the Leipzig/Halle airport where she worked."
Jian Guo, a German national and former aide to Maximilian Krah, was convicted of acting as an agent for Chinese intelligence and sentenced to four years and nine months in prison. He gathered confidential documents and personal information about top AfD figures while working in Krah's European parliament office between 2019 and 2024, and passed them to Chinese authorities. A Chinese accomplice, named as Yaqi X under privacy rules, received a suspended sentence after admitting to supplying airport flight, cargo and passenger information focused on military transports. Krah said he hired Guo for language skills and import-export experience and increased office security after the arrest. Krah faces separate bribery and money laundering investigations.
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