Germany charges US citizen with offering military intelligence to China
FILE PHOTO: U.S. troops in transfer to military base in Grafenwoehr to strengten NATO efforts in Eastern Europe as Russian invasion on Ukraine continues, carrying rifles stand in formation at the Albrecht Duerer Airport in Nuremberg, Germany March 1, 2022
BERLIN (Reuters) -German federal prosecutors said on Monday that they have charged a U.S. citizen they accuse of offering to pass sensitive U.S. military information to Chinese intelligence.
The man, identified as Martin D. under German privacy law, is accused of contacting Chinese state bodies in summer 2024 while working for a U.S. military contractor on a U.S. base in Germany, the prosecutors said in a statement.
He has been in pre-trial detention since his arrect in November.
(Reporting by Kirsti Knolle, Editing by Miranda Murray)
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