Overview

• Defense teams delivered closing pleas, with Jian G.’s lawyer seeking acquittal for lack of proof and challenging the legality of years-long surveillance and secret evidence.
• In his final statement, Jian G. said he never worked for a Chinese intelligence service and insisted he is innocent after previously remaining silent.
• Co-defendant Yaqi X. acknowledged passing airport logistics data but argued she did not know of any espionage, and her counsel asked for a suspended term.
• Prosecutors accuse Jian G. of relaying hundreds of European Parliament documents gathered while assisting AfD politician Maximilian Krah and say X. supplied flight, cargo and passenger details from Leipzig/Halle.
• The court scheduled one remaining session for September 30, following prosecutorial sentencing requests of seven and a half years for Jian G. and two years nine months for X., with related but separate probes into Krah continuing.