Overview

• Federal prosecutors filed an indictment against a U.S. citizen who worked on a U.S. military base in Germany for allegedly offering sensitive information to a Chinese intelligence service.
• Investigators say the suspect repeatedly contacted Chinese state institutions in summer 2024 to propose supplying U.S. military data.
• Authorities report no indication so far that any information was actually transmitted to Chinese recipients.
• Bundeskriminalamt officers arrested the man in Frankfurt in early November 2024, searched his residence, and he has remained in pretrial detention since.
• The state-security senate of the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz will determine whether to admit the charges and set a trial.