Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 03 Aug 2021, 10:51 am Print
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Frankfurt: A German academic's wife has been charged with spying for China for nearly a decade, media reports said quoting German prosecutors .
Federal prosecutors on Monday said she assisted her husband in sharing information with Chinese secret services.
According to prosecutors in Karlsruhe, German-Italian national Klara K. and her husband Klaus L. were approached by Chinese agents during a lecture tour to Shanghai in 2010, reports AFP news agency.
From then until November 2019, the couple "regularly passed on information to the Chinese intelligence service in the run-up to or after state visits or multinational conferences", prosecutors alleged as quoted by the news agency.
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