Overview
- The AfD Bundestag group confirmed a Politico report that its board issued a €2,000 penalty for the unreported travel.
- The parliamentary group will withhold Moosdorf’s floor time for six Bundestag sitting weeks, a spokesperson said.
- Moosdorf told Politico he attended a birthday and traveled as a musician, and he intends to contest the decision.
- The lawmaker holds an honorary professorship at Moscow’s Gnessin Academy, a role that has drawn internal criticism.
- In March he met Kremlin adviser Anton Kobjakow and he earlier replaced Petr Bystron as foreign policy spokesman, with Bystron denying allegations linked to a Russian influence probe.