A former aide to German far-right lawmaker Maximilian Krah in the European Parliament was sentenced Tuesday to four years and nine months in prison for spying on behalf of China.
The court in Dresden found Jian Guo guilty of acting as an agent for a Chinese intelligence service while working for Krah, a member of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
An accomplice of Guo, a woman named only as Yaqi X., was given a suspended sentence of one year and nine months.
"There is no question that you were an employee of a Chinese intelligence service," presiding judge Hans Schlueter-Staats said to Guo, citing wiretapped conversations and other evidence.
Prosecutors had sought seven and a half years in jail for Guo, a German national who worked as a Brussels-based staffer for Krah between 2019 and 2024.
