Chinese Activist Monitoring Convicted of German Espionage
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Former Political Aide Sentenced for spying for China
A german court this week sentenced a former political aide featured in the International consortium of Investigative Journalists’ (ICIJ) China Targets investigation to more than four years in prison after finding that he spied for China for nearly two decades.
Announcing the verdict in the Higher Regional Court in Dresden, Judge Hans-Dieter Schlueter-Staats detailed how Jian Guo sought to identify and expose Chinese political dissidents and leaked hundreds of European parliament documents to China while working as an assistant to German politician Maximilian Krah.
“for us, there is no question that you are an employee of a Chinese intelligence agency,” Schlueter-Staats said to Guo, citing wiretapped conversations and other evidence, according to German media.
Federal Prosecutor Stephan morweiser told reporters that Guo’s activities “was the most serious case of Chinese espionage in Germany.”
Guo denied the accusations and insisted on his innocence. The Chinese government reportedly rejected the allegations of espionage.