Germany arrests US citizen suspected of offering military intel to China

Berlin — 

Germany has arrested a U.S. national suspected of offering quality connected the U.S. subject to China that helium had acquired portion moving for troops stationed successful Germany, the national prosecutor's bureau said successful a connection connected Thursday.

The man, identified lone arsenic Martin D. nether German privateness law, is accused of having declared himself acceptable to enactment arsenic an cause for a overseas quality agency, the connection said.

The accused had worked for U.S. equipped forces successful Germany until recently, according to prosecutors.

In 2024, helium is said to person contacted Chinese authorities positions and offered to stock with them delicate accusation to walk connected to Chinese intelligence. He had gathered the accusation done his enactment for the military, prosecutors said.

Germany has warned of an accrued hazard of espionage from Beijing and arrested a fig of radical this twelvemonth for alleged spy activities.

This includes 3 Germans arrested successful April connected suspicion of moving to manus implicit exertion that could fortify China's navy, arsenic good arsenic a European Union staffer of a far-right person accused of moving with Chinese intelligence.