The wife of a German political scientist accused of <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/tesla-founder-musk-denies-technology-in-company-s-cars-would-be-used-for-spying-1.1187622" target="_blank">spying</a> for China has herself been charged with sharing information with Beijing. Prosecutors in Germany say that German-Italian citizen Klara K assisted her husband Klaus L in passing information to the Chinese intelligence services. They allege that the couple were first approached by Chinese spies at a lecture in <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/travel/hotels/2021/07/06/j-hotel-shanghai-tower-worlds-highest-hotel-opens-in-china/" target="_blank">Shanghai</a> in June 2010. From then until November 2019, the pair “regularly passed on information to the Chinese intelligence service in the run-up to or after state visits or multinational conferences”, it is claimed. They gathered intelligence via the high-level contacts that Klaus L had built up since establishing a think tank in 2001. Chinese spies allegedly paid for the trips and for the couple to travel to meetings with their handlers. Although the home of Klaus L was searched in November 2019, it was only until earlier this year that he was formally charged. German public broadcaster ARD has claimed that the 75-year-old academic had also worked for Germany’s intelligence services for decades, although it is not known if China was aware of this reported link.