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A German politician has been filmed taking large sums of cash from a Kremlin-supporting broadcaster, Czech intelligence has claimed.

Petr Bystron, who is standing for Alternative for Germany (AfD) at European parliamentary elections in June, allegedly received €20,000 (£17,000) in cash from the manager of a Russian propaganda network while sitting in a parked car, recordings indicate.

Mr Bystron, who also sits on the Bundestag’s foreign affairs committee, has previously denied allegations of taking Russian money as a “defamation campaign”.

The Security Information Service (BIS), the Czech Republic’s domestic intelligence agency, now says Mr Bystron met with Artem Marchevsky, who allegedly managed a Kremlin-backed propaganda front called Voice of Europe, at least three times in the past six months.

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[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 5 months ago

That's honestly the most disgusting part of it to me. The amount of money they make doing it is barely enough to insulate them from the effects of living in a worse country

If they got $250k to redirect $1m in funding to a company, I wouldn't like it but I would understand why someone without morals would sell out like that

But it's more like $100k over a decade at the cost of billions to the country. Half the time, they're basically just funding their next campaign... they're burning our society, and they don't even come out ahead

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Just greedy short sighted fools who are willing to abase themselves to scum, or they are sociopathic monsters who don't care about anything but whatever they want.

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