Alice Weidel of Alternative for Germany (AfD) speaks during a session at the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany November 21, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
BERLIN (Reuters) - German prosecutors have opened an investigation into the co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on suspicion of violating party donation rules, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office in the city of Constance.
Alice Weidel's local party in the southern city on the shores of a lake of the same name is suspected of receiving a total 145,000 Swiss francs (113,782 pounds) between July and September last year from a company based across the border in Switzerland.
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