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Germany charges US citizen with offering military intelligence to China
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Posted on August 25, 2025
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on August 25, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
A US citizen is charged in Germany for allegedly offering US military intelligence to China while working for a military contractor.
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)
German federal prosecutors have charged a U.S. citizen for allegedly offering to pass sensitive U.S. military information to Chinese intelligence.
The accused individual is identified as Martin D., in accordance with German privacy law.
The man is accused of contacting Chinese state bodies during the summer of 2024.
He was working for a U.S. military contractor on a U.S. base in Germany.
He has been in pre-trial detention since his arrest in November.
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