The German prosecutor's office has charged an American citizen with passing US secret military information to Chinese intelligence nearly a year after his arrest in Frankfurt, writes Politico.
The former US Department of Defense contractor Martin D. has been charged in a «particularly serious case», being labeled as an agent of foreign intelligence.
According to the indictment, Martin D. worked for a civilian defense contractor from 2017 until the spring of 2023, and since 2020 was stationed at a US military base in Germany.
In the summer of 2024, according to prosecutors, he approached Chinese government officials several times and offered to pass secret information about US military operations.
German authorities detained the suspect in November 2024 at Frankfurt am Main airport based on an arrest warrant issued by the Federal Court of Germany.