Overview

• Lawmaker votes from all factions approved the execution of court-ordered searches and seizures after revoking Krah’s parliamentary protection.
• Investigators searched his Bundestag office in Berlin plus premises in Dresden and Brussels, with Eurojust and Belgian authorities assisting under an order from the Higher Regional Court in Dresden.
• The Dresden probe focuses on suspected bribery and money laundering tied to payment flows linked to his former aide during Krah’s years in the European Parliament.
• Krah denies wrongdoing, calls the measures politically motivated, and previously invoked testimonial privilege on possible payments while testifying in his ex-aide’s espionage trial.
• AfD leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla called the searches a serious step and pressed for a rapid conclusion, as the separate spy case against ex-assistant Jian G. proceeds in Dresden.