Overview

• Judges in Dresden sentenced Jian G. to four years and nine months for acting as an agent of a Chinese intelligence service while employed in Maximilian Krah’s European Parliament office.
• The court deemed his activity a particularly serious case after finding he passed partly confidential parliamentary documents and tracked Chinese dissidents in Europe.
• Prosecutors said his ties to Chinese intelligence dated to 2002 and had sought a seven-and-a-half-year term, which the court declined to impose.
• Co-defendant Yaqi X. received a suspended sentence of one year and nine months after admitting she relayed Leipzig airport data on flights and cargo, including military-related movements.
• Krah remains under investigation for suspected bribery and money laundering linked to China following raids and the lifting of his parliamentary immunity, while Beijing rejects the espionage allegations.