Overview

• The Federal Prosecutor General filed charges alleging Martin D. acted as an agent for a foreign intelligence service in a particularly serious case.
• Prosecutors say he repeatedly contacted Chinese authorities in the summer of 2024 offering sensitive U.S. military information.
• He worked for a civilian U.S. Defense Department contractor from 2017 to spring 2023 and was stationed at a U.S. base in Germany beginning in 2020.
• German authorities arrested him at Frankfurt Airport in November 2024, and he remains in pretrial detention.
• German media report there is no public evidence he successfully transferred classified data before his arrest.