Germany Arrests Married Couple on China Spying Charges
Prosecutors say the pair sought high-tech information with military uses by posing as interpreters and arranging paid lectures for scientists.
- On Wednesday, German police arrested a married couple, Xuejun and Hua, in Munich on charges of spying for a Chinese intelligence agency to obtain military-use technology.
- Posing as interpreters or automobile employees, the pair established contacts with academics in aerospace, computer science, and artificial intelligence, then lured scientists to China for presentations to state-run weapons companies.
- Federal prosecutors conducted operations across Germany involving 10 potential witnesses in Berlin and other locations, while moving the suspects to the Federal Court in Karlsruhe for a hearing on investigative detention.
- Recent espionage cases linked to China have escalated; a former aide to far-right politician Maximilian Krah was jailed in September for acting as a Chinese intelligence agent, though Krah denies taking money from Russia and China.
- German Green MP Konstantin von Notz, deputy chief of the intelligence oversight committee, warned earlier this week that "we are massively underestimating the energy and aggression with which China is acting against the West, including against Europe and Germany.
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The couple allegedly posed as interpreters, among other things, to get scientists from German universities to China.
German Police Allege Married Couple Spied for Beijing
On Wednesday, May 20th German police arrested a married couple in Munich on suspicion of spying for a Chinese intelligence agency. The German nationals, identified as Xuejun C. and Hua S., are accused of illegally gathering information on advanced technologies with potential military applications, specifically focusing on aerospace engineering, computer science, and artificial intelligence. By posing as interpreters or automotive industry empl…
It is about military-useable cutting-edge technology and lectures in front of Chinese arms companies: The Federal Prosecutor's Office accuses two spouses of espionage for China - and arrests them.
They had established links with many expert researchers in aeronautics, aerospace, computer science or artificial intelligence to obtain information on " state-of-the-art technologies".
It is about military-useable cutting-edge technology and lectures in front of Chinese arms companies: The Federal Prosecutor's Office accuses two spouses of espionage for China - and arrests them.
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