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submitted 6 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/world@lemmy.world

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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[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

The thing is, it was already known they were in contact and the politician in question claimed he did nothing sketchy. So he's not only corrupt, or a traitor to our country, or (most likely) both, he also already publicly lied about it and there is supposedly evidence he actually accepted money. This makes things much worse for him.

His party also already claimed it's a smear campaign, so if there really is evidence, they'll look pretty stupid as well (although this really isn't news).

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

But this isn't about a new case, it's literally about the same thing. Your initial comment simply does not make sense.

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