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German AfD Figure Behind Alleged Serbian Node in Russian Cyber Meddling (balkaninsight.com)
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An investigation identified Andreas Maul, a town councillor for Germany’s far-right AfD party, as the man behind a Serbian company sanctioned for aiding a Russian alleged cybercrime service provider.

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The company, Aeza Group, was sanctioned by the US in July last year for allegedly providing infrastructure for cybercrime groups involved in ransomware, personal information theft and the drug trade.

A year earlier, the German investigative media outlet CORRECTIV, based on an analysis by the Swedish digital forensics NGO Qurium, reported that Aeza Group had supported a wide-ranging, ongoing Russian covert influence and disinformation campaign launched after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and known as ‘Doppelganger".

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Maul was born in the Kazakh city of Rudny, near the Central Asian state’s northern border with Russia.

On his private TikTok and Telegram profiles, Maul goes by the name Андрей, or Andrej.

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Maul holds a German passport and lives in Selm, where he runs two companies – cleaning firm Maul Services UG, opened in 2018, and the business consultancy PHRIS Consulting, registered in January 2021. Both are registered at Maul’s residential address.

On the official website of the Selm local authority, Maul is listed as a member of several committees of the Selm local assembly since November 13, 2025. On a Facebook page of the local AfD branch, Maul is shown at an AfD event in Selm in May this year inviting people to register as stem cell donors.

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[-] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The founding fathers and mothers of germany [...] were conservatives and ex-nazis just as there were progressivs.

And even in modern day we still have a vast part of conservativ[e] parties that hard line against fascists.

Which vast part is that? The one that happily agreed when the C*U leadership tried to push deportation laws with AfD support? The C*U that happily jumped onto the band-wagon of a far-right campaign to cancel their own candidate for the constitional court? Or the C*U that spend the last years parroting every single far-right culture war topic the fascists invented? Maybe it's the C*U that is constantly trying to normalise the idea of cooperating with those AfD nazis, so they can instantly pretend it was only Merz that rejected them the moment they get rid of that worst chancellor ever? Oh, wait... I know! It's the C*U that refuses to initiate the evaluation to get them banned for being unconstitutional. Because why would their help to ban their future coalition partner?

Even the BIW party in germany

Can we talk about actually relevant parties instead of some local splinter group of an already irrelevant local right-wing party with a double-digit number of members and barely more votes than that?

Walter Lübcke, a conservativ party member, a victim of nazi terror, just like many other humans with him.

And guess who stayed mostly silent while there was a loud outcry from left parties? The C*U. And guess who even recently dared to accuse left parties of not having reacted at all when Lübcke was killed? Some minor C*U politician called Friedrich Merz.

I’d advise you to step out of your online bubble and talk with people

I'd advice you to get help for your mental issues. Oh, wait... you better don't as the nazi supporters you are trying to excuse will come for those with documented mental issues quickly.

/ignore

this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2026
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