# Maximilian Krah also had his offices at the European Parliament searched in connection with one of his assistants who was arrested last year on suspicion of spying for China.
>Germany’s parliament lifted the immunity of a prominent far-right lawmaker on Thursday, after which authorities searched his home and offices following a court order.
>The raids came in the wake of allegations that Maximilian Krah of the Alternative for Germany (Afd) party has had ties to China and was involved in corruption and spying scandals.
>Lifting his immunity as a lawmaker was a necessary step that now allows authorities to prosecute him.
>The AfD banned Krah from the EU elections last year, weeks after he told an Italian newspaper that not all members of the Nazis’ elite SS unit, which was involved in major war crimes during World War II, were war criminals.
>Nevertheless, he won a seat in the German parliament earlier this year as part of the party’s historic gains in the Bundestag during February’s snap elections.
>On Thursday, police searched his parliamentary office in Berlin, as well as his home and offices in the eastern German city of Dresden and in Brussels, where he used to be as a European Parliament lawmaker.
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# Maximilian Krah also had his offices at the European Parliament searched in connection with one of his assistants who was arrested last year on suspicion of spying for China.
>Germany’s parliament lifted the immunity of a prominent far-right lawmaker on Thursday, after which authorities searched his home and offices following a court order.
>The raids came in the wake of allegations that Maximilian Krah of the Alternative for Germany (Afd) party has had ties to China and was involved in corruption and spying scandals.
>Lifting his immunity as a lawmaker was a necessary step that now allows authorities to prosecute him.
>The AfD banned Krah from the EU elections last year, weeks after he told an Italian newspaper that not all members of the Nazis’ elite SS unit, which was involved in major war crimes during World War II, were war criminals.
>Nevertheless, he won a seat in the German parliament earlier this year as part of the party’s historic gains in the Bundestag during February’s snap elections.
>On Thursday, police searched his parliamentary office in Berlin, as well as his home and offices in the eastern German city of Dresden and in Brussels, where he used to be as a European Parliament lawmaker.
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