A German court is set to hand down its verdict Tuesday in the case of an alleged spy for China who worked as an aide to a far-right member of the European Parliament.
The main defendant, Jian Guo, worked as a Brussels-based staffer for Maximilian Krah of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party when Krah was an MEP between 2019 and 2024.
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