Overview
- Lawmakers approved the removal of Krah’s parliamentary immunity, authorizing court search and seizure orders.
- Police searched his Bundestag office in Berlin and his home and business premises in Dresden and Brussels under a Dresden Higher Regional Court order.
- Prosecutors in Dresden are conducting a preliminary investigation into suspected bribery and money laundering tied to alleged payments from Chinese sources.
- Investigators coordinated the searches with Eurojust and the Belgian judiciary, reflecting the cross-border scope of the case.
- Krah denies wrongdoing and calls the case politically motivated, while his ex-aide Jian Guo is on trial over accusations he passed European Parliament information to Chinese intelligence.