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Kate Connolly in Berlin

AfD politician’s former aide convicted of spying for China

Jian Guo AFD Maximilian Krah China Bundestag Dresden Europe
A police officer holds an arm of the handcuffed Jian Guo
Jian Guo arrives at the court in Dresden on Tuesday (image pixelated to comply with German law). Photograph: Getty Images

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.

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