{"id":4620,"date":"2020-04-07T13:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:30:25","slug":"german-spy-suspect-disappears-from-eu-lobbying-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4620","title":{"rendered":"German spy suspect disappears from EU lobbying register"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><figcaption>\n<p>Gerhard Sabathil has been removed\u00a0from the EU&#039;s Transparency Register | Aslu\/Ullstein Bild via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>German spy suspect disappears from EU lobbying register<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Gerhard Sabathil no longer listed as having European Parliament accreditation.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Cristina Gonzalez<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2020-01-29T17:10:34+00:00\">1\/29\/20, 5:10 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated <time datetime=\"2020-01-29T17:16:46+00:00\">1\/29\/20, 5:16 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>The ex-diplomat suspected by German prosecutors of spying for China has been removed\u00a0from a list of lobbyists in the EU&#8217;s Transparency Register.<\/p>\n<p>Gerhard Sabathil, who has denied the allegations against him, worked for decades for the European Commission and the EU&#8217;s diplomatic corps before moving to lobbying firm EUTOP in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Sabathil had been listed in EUTOP&#8217;s entry in the Transparency Register as a person accredited for access to the European Parliament premises. But his entry disappeared last week, as publicity around the allegations against him grew.<\/p>\n<p>Sabathil\u2019s absence from the Transparency Register was first recorded on Wednesday, January 22, according to Corporate Europe Observatory, a group that co-runs LobbyFacts.eu \u2014 a website which scrapes the Transparency Register daily for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Neither EUTOP nor the European Parliament answered questions from POLITICO on why and when Sabathil had been removed from the register.<\/p>\n<p>The former German diplomat&#8217;s profile was also removed from EUTOP&#8217;s website last week and the company has declined to say whether it still employed him. He had previously been listed as managing director of EUTOP&#8217;s Brussels and Berlin offices.<\/p>\n<p>Sabathil himself has not commented publicly since the allegations against him surfaced two weeks ago. His denials came through his employer and a German lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>The EU Transparency Register is a database jointly run by the European Parliament and the Commission, which tracks organizations registered to lobby the EU institutions and their accredited lobbyists.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-frag-list layout-linear article-in-this-section article-section-remove\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Cristina Gonzalez<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.shopskm.com\/rugby-Jerseys\/NRL-Telstra-Premiership\/Roosters' title='cheap sydney roosters jersey'>cheap sydney roosters jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerhard Sabathil has been removed\u00a0from the EU&#039;s Transparency Register | Aslu\/Ullstein Bild via Getty Images German spy suspect disappears from EU lobbying register Gerhard Sabathil no longer listed as having European Parliament accreditation. By Cristina Gonzalez 1\/29\/20, 5:10 PM CET Updated 1\/29\/20, 5:16 PM CET The ex-diplomat suspected by German prosecutors of spying for China&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}