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Several cases of Chinese espionage have been announced recently in Europe. Thomas Reichenbach and
Herwig and Eno Fischer, a married couple, were arrested on April twenty second,
twenty twenty four for illegal exports of dual use technology with military naval applications.
Nothing related to our last podcast, I'm prosecuting an espionage case, but
interesting in the correlation. Rock and Bach lists himself as a contract marketing manager
for Hong Kong Trade Development. He studied at Peking University in the mid nineteen
eighties. He worked in China and speaks Mandarin and has a Chinese wife.
Herwig and Eno Fisher own a small engineering consulting company named Innovative Dragon and Dusol
Dworf. Both have traveled extensively in China. Innovative Dragon contracts for technical research
with universities. Herwig studied mechanical engineering and aircraft and spacecraft construction at the Rhine
Festalia Higher Technical School, focusing on guidance technology and composite fiber materials. Raich
Mbach is suspected of being being recruited by the Ministry of State Security MSS and
China. The German government has accused the trio of having illegally exported dual use
technology since at least twenty twenty two. At the time of arrest, the
suspects were negotiations an additional project research projects useful for expanding the combat strength of
the Chinese Army. The allegations alleged tradecraft observations, use of a potential front
company in London to facilitate allegedly illegal exports, use of third countries to facilitate
allegedly illegal exports. Rai Combach allegedly recruited Hrwig and Ena Fisher and handled them
as in country assets. It is alleged that the MSS probably recruited roch Embach
in China, and the MSS allegedly funded the operation through front companies. So
again, China's still up to their their stuff. That's never going to go
away, that's for sure, and that's it for now.