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A German member of the Bundestag, Petr Bystron (AfD), is said to have been recorded taking 20,000 Euros in Prague, from a pro-Russia Ukrainian named Artem Martshevsky tagesschau.de/investigativ/k…

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German politician filmed taking Russian money

The Czech Republic’s domestic intel agency, now says Mr Bystron met with Artem Marchevsky, who allegedly managed a Kremlin-backed propaganda front called Voice of Europe, at least 3 times in the past 6 months

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The Czech gov last month took down Voice of Europe’s website and imposed a travel ban and an assets freeze on its owner, the exiled Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, after BIS concluded it was being used as a front to pay pro-Russian politicians to peddle Kremlin propaganda.

A Czech MP who heard the recordings said Mr Bystron can later be heard “rustling and counting cash” while sitting in a parked car in Prague. The money was allegedly intended to fund new employees in the European Parliament.

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 Medvedchuk is godfather to one of Vladimir Putin’s daughters. He was arrested in Ukraine soon after the Russian invasion and later exchanged for Ukrainian prisoners of war. He is currently believed to be in Russia.

BIS has said it thinks the operation handed out at least half a million euros to pro-Russian politicians across Europe. Their investigation has triggered police raids in the Czech Republic, Poland and other European countries.

The Munich public prosecutor’s office has started preliminary investigations against Mr Bystron for possible bribery of elected officials.

Petr Fiala, the Czech prime minister, warned that the aim was to help pro-Russian politicians into the European Parliament.

The FBI in March questioned Maximilian Krah 👀 the leader of AfD’s faction in the European Parliament, over suspicions of taking money from Kremlin agents, Der Spiegel reported last week. Mr Krah confirmed he had been interviewed but denied being financed by Russia.

FBI questioned far-right German lawmaker Maximilian Krah last December, in New York, over suspicion that he was receiving money from Kremlin agents

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An earlier investigation by Spiegel said that Krah's colleague from AfD, Petr Bystron, was one of those who received funds from Russia. Both Krah and Bystron also gave interviews to Voice of Europe 🙄

Krah was questioned by the FBI when he visited NY to attend a gala for young Republicans in December 2023. The lawmaker was detained as it is suspected Krah had received Russian money via Oleh Voloshyn, a former Ukrainian pro-Kremlin lawmaker.

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Spiegel said that the American investigators had access to Krah's chat messages with Voloshyn, where the German lawmaker was promised "compensation" for "technical expenses," with wording suggesting that the payments had been going on for some time.

Probes into Russian influence are also underway in Belgium. The country's PM Alexander de Croo said that the Kremlin hopes to bring pro-Russian politicians into the European Parliament

The vote for the EU's legislature is scheduled between June 6 and 9.

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HOLY SHIT 🔥

Here we go….

Maximillian Krah with Steve Bannon in April 2022 👀

Maximillian Krah (🇷🇺💰) with Kellyanne Conway and a former Virginia State Senator, Richard Black, in November 2022 👀

Maximillian Krah, AfD (🇷🇺💰) with Ted Cruz in November 2022

Maximillian Krah AfD (🇷🇺💰) with US House of Representatives Congressman Pat Fallon of Texas, in November 2022

12/23: NY Young Republicans Club's Gala exceeded all expectations🔥

Ceremony kicked off w/Matt Gaetz, then Donald Trump. Night was an inspiration for myself and other AfD politicians. I thank Gavin Wax, Nathan Berger &Lucian Wintrich. -Maximilian Krah

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Krah was questioned by the FBI when he visited NY to attend a gala for young Republicans in December 2023. The lawmaker was detained as it is suspected Krah had received Russian money via Oleh Voloshyn, a former Ukrainian pro-Kremlin lawmaker. 🙄

@RonWyden 👆👆👆

@RonWyden "Along with Grosz, the gala was attended by Susanna Ceccardi, from Italy’s far-right Lega party...Maximilian Krah (🇷🇺💰) of AfD, was present for the festivities along w/David Bendels, the editor of a publication that is aligned with AfD"

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@RonWyden Grosz, was initially a member of the Freedom Party of Austria, which was founded by a former Nazi leader and SS officer. 🙄

...Last year, Grosz ran for president with a decidedly Trumpian flair, as his main slogan was “Make Austria Grosz Again.”

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Oleh Voloshyn allegedly paid Maximilian Krah

Oleh Voloshyn is pro-Kremlin Ukrainian, turned pundit, was in gov when Yanukovych (Manafort) was in power. He was a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament.

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2023: “Voloshyn deliberately tried to manipulate public opinion of Ukrainian citizens in the interests of the aggressor country, publicly justified the creation and activities of the Donbas puppet authorities."
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"In July 2021, upon his arrival in the U.S., he was pulled away at Dulles International Airport by FBI agents for a three-hour long questioning session; according to Voloshyn, the agents also extracted the information from his cellphone."

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Other countries can eliminate these traitors from their government, but we can't manage it. When Dems get the House back, the investigations need to be flying.

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Maximilian Krah (🇷🇺💰) of AfD, was present for the festivities along w/David Bendels, the editor of a publication that is aligned with AfD...

David Bendels, German journalist

David Bendels

@SaysDana 😅 🙌🏼

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@SaysDana Re Matthias Moorsdorf (AfD) who was at the Young Republicans event with Trump & Co in Dec 2023.

June 2023: Moorsdoorf sat on panel pushing Russian disinformation “America is in Decline 😫”

A marquee event for Putin, the state-run St Petersburg International Economic Forum 🚨

@SaysDana (Pausing for now, brb ✌🏼)

News from Leipzig: A terribly right-wing dinner party

December 9, 2023, Young Republicans celebrate in Manhattan, guest of honor: Donald Trump. The AfD's top candidate...Maximilian Krah (🇷🇺💰) , is also in the hall with guests.

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German nationals at the Young Republicans/ Trump Dec 2023 event

David Bendels, Deutschland-Kurier
Mathilda Huss
Christian von Hoffmeister AfD
Alexander Kleine, Identitarian Movement
Maximillian Schmidt
Kay Gottschalk AfD
Matthias Moorsdorf AfD
Johannes Schuller, radical right

Jan Wenzel Schmidt (? s=Jan+Wenzel+Schmidt) is a member of the Bundestag of the AfD. Right-wing extremist Mario Müller works in his office (? s=Mario+M%C3%BCller) - a convicted violent offender. idas.noblogs.org
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Maximilian Krah (🇷🇺💰) from Saxony, one of the most important figures of the AfD…the top candidate of the AfD for the European elections, has himself made a pact with the radical forces of the right. He celebrates with…identitarians, from which, his party officially distances.

Maximilian Krah (🇷🇺💰) and David Bendels of Deutschland-Kurier

The solidarity of conservatives and right-wing extremists, which also happened in the Potsdam 🇩🇪 country house 👀 Adlon in a small group behind closed doors - this evening it will be celebrated in public. And the gala event proves something else: with what effort influential…

…influential AfD politicians like Krah also network internationally. An evening with Donald Trump is apparently worth a trip around half the world. And on top of that, a whole lot of money.

After all, a whole group of Germans showed up. Right next to Krah sits David Bendels, editor-in-chief of the tight-right online postilleDeutschland-Kurier and managing director of the company behind it. Bendels, with female accompaniment in the hall, is even welcomed by…

…the presenter of the evening [Gaetz] as one of the co-hosts of the gala, right after *Steve Bannon, Trump's former strategist. An honor that, according to the official invitation alone, costs $15,000. According to the price list, almost 8,000 dollars are due for a table…

Krah, on the other hand, says that he "bought a card through Mr. Bendels and, of course, also paid." Because Bendels had "a whole table at his disposal." He paid for the travel costs himself, says Krah. He had further background talks with American politicians in New York.

…Bendels was thus apparently a kind of mediator between the AfD and rich people who wanted to donate to the party **without being named. 🚩 Due to this covert aid, the AfD had to pay a penalty notice for illegal party financing.

Giuliani was at this event, too

Krah publicly explained that for him there is an "ethnic identity as a German" that is not negotiable. In September, he wrote on X: "Genetics 👀refutes the left fairy tale that there are no differences, that everything - gender, family, people is only socially constructed.”

Huss…is convinced of the superiority of the "white race" as well as of a conspiracy of alleged "globalists" as the masterminds of international politics….the Woke movement only exists because..LGBTQ rights or the Black Lives Matter movement are genetically "degenerated.”

🙄

von Hoffmeister: You always have to be against the concept of human rights." The "Shit FRG" is a "pure colony" and an "inferior joke". "The West" is therefore "the enemy" 👀 in his eyes…Hoffmeister wished: "The sooner the Chinese 🇨🇳 become stronger, the better."

Von Hoffmeister's wife is now working as an assistant in Krah's MEPs' office.

Alexander Kleine from Leipzig - nickname "Malenki" is in the same circles. As a former regional leader, Kleine was an influential member of the Identitarian Movement (IB), a right-wing extremist organization from which the AfD at least officially distances itself.

On this evening in New York, Kleine is apparently also active for Bendel's Deutschland-Kurier

Another young, extreme right-wing media activist will be present at table 56 in Cipriani this evening: Maximilian Schmidt is co-founder of Kleines Agentur Tannwald Media. At events of the Identitarians, he could be seen with a camera…

What does Maximilian Krah say about this society?

To his right, Johannes Schüller…at the Deutschland-Kurier he is a guest columnist. Schüller has been active in the radical right for many years involved in the identitarians years ago…

Schmidt (2016) appeared as an "honorary guest" at an event of the Identitarians….he claimed there: "The population is being replaced in the sense that it is to be replaced by these asylum seekers. It is no longer encouraged to reproduce its own population here in Germany."

What did AfD’s top candidate,
Maximillian Krah (🇷🇺💰) say about this rogues gallery that attended Trump’s gala with him, in December 2023?

Meh. 🤷🏻‍♂️

On social media channels, Maximilian Krah (🇷🇺💰) is highly satisfied with the course of the evening: “It is crucial that right-wing patriots network worldwide." Later, he assures that the trip to NY was a success. He made *worthwhile international contacts there.

Bendels also raves about the trip to the USA in an email to ZEIT ONLINE. He quotes from Trump's speech: "We won't be nice anymore!" We will no longer be nice - this "fight 👀announcement" of the ex-president also applies to Europe and Germany.

Recall, after leaving Trump's gala (December 2023), Krah was questioned by the FBI. The lawmaker was detained as it is suspected Krah had received Russian money via Oleh Voloshyn, a former Ukrainian pro-Kremlin lawmaker.

Media: FBI questioned far-right German lawmaker (Maximilian Krah) over suspected Russian funding

END (for now).

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