Thread by @JulianRoepcke

#Scoop
According to information, exclusively obtained by @BILD, Chinese internet company #Tencent is trying to buy German games developer #Crytek for more than 300 Million Euros via a European subsidiary.
Crytek supplies several western armies with military simulation programs.

Multiple employees of Crytek, based in Frankfurt, are afraid, that if their company is sold to China, their software will be used for military purpose by the PLA or China will use its ownership of the company to spy on western militaries and arms manufacturers, using CryEngine.

According to our investigation, Tencent - claiming to be an independent company - is highly pro-CCP and already in 2017 promised to the Chinese leadership that it will raise its party member share sharply from 23% at this time - especially in leading company positions.

We contacted both, Tencent & Crytek, on the matter, but none of them wanted to talk to us.🤷🏼‍♂️

For German ruling party defense expert Henning Otte, this is a case if national security and them sale of Crytek must be stopped, if Tencent has non commercial plans with the company.⤵️

There is much more to the story, but for now, we can’t reveal more to protect our sources.
Here is what we published today:

China-Konzern will deutsche Gaming-Firma kaufen bild.de/politik/auslan…

Just one thing: I read in foreign news outlets that we reported, Tencent wants to buy Crytek because of the engine for military simulations, they produce.
We didn’t report this ans I also didn’t tweet that.
What we said is that employees FEAR, this might be the case.
#important

Same is true for our print edition.
I’m just emphasizing this for all of you lawyers out there!😎
And still. There is more to come on how the Chinese are trying to get control over the company and force it to comply with its wishes.
Spoiler: It’s gonna get dirty.