German prosecutors probe far-right leader over election donations


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  • Wednesday, 21 Nov 2018

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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