Germany charges US citizen with offering military intelligence to China

PHOTO CAPTION: Illustrative photo — Police are seen following a raid in Frankfurt, Germany December 7, 2022. REUTERS/Tilman Blasshofer

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 // REUTERS)