Police have raided homes and offices in Brussels and across Germany in a case involving threepeople suspected of spying for China, prosecutors said today, Reuters reports. The case is the first in recent years involving concrete allegations of spying by China against Germany and the EU. "I can confirm that we are carrying out an investigation into intelligence agent activity," said Markus Schmitt, spokesman for German federal prosecutors. Raids were conducted in Brussels, Berlin and the two southern states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria, the main centres for Germany's advanced manufacturing industries. Der Spiegel reported that the former diplomat had held a string of senior posts in the EU's foreign service.

Source: The Standard January 15, 2020 11:03 UTC