Overview

• Lawmakers voted unanimously on the Immunity Committee’s recommendation, authorizing execution of court‑ordered searches and seizures.
• Investigators searched Krah’s Bundestag office in Berlin and premises in Dresden and, with Eurojust and Belgian authorities, in Brussels under orders from the Higher Regional Court of Dresden.
• The probe opened in May focuses on payments during Krah’s 2019–2025 EU tenure, with case files cited by media indicating more than €50,000 in flows, including about €15,000 from three Chinese companies.
• Krah denies wrongdoing, calls the accusations politically motivated, describes the searches as intimidation, and says he will contest the measures.
• Ex‑aide Jian G. is on trial in Dresden for alleged espionage for a Chinese intelligence service, accused of obtaining over 500 European Parliament documents; Krah recently testified but declined to answer about potential payments.