BERLIN: A US citizen was sentenced to 2 years and eight months in jail Wednesday (Feb 11) for providing China delicate info whereas working as a civilian contractor at a US army base in Germany.
The defendant, solely partially named as Martin D., was placed on trial in a German courtroom within the western metropolis of Koblenz, with proceedings held partly behind closed doorways.
In 2024, prosecutors charged that Martin D. had “contacted Chinese language authorities businesses a number of instances and supplied to go on delicate info from the US army to a Chinese language intelligence service”.
The person labored as a contractor for the US Defence Division between 2017 and 2023, together with at a US army base in Germany since a minimum of 2020, in response to the indictment.
He was arrested by German police in Frankfurt in November 2024 and has been held in pretrial detention since.
America established dozens of bases in Germany after World Battle II, and nonetheless has greater than 35,000 US troops stationed within the nation.
The bases – situated principally within the former US army occupation zone in western and southern Germany – additionally make use of roughly 11,000 civilians for companies akin to logistics, catering, healthcare and safety.
