Vladimir Sergiyenko worked for AfD MP Eugen Schmidt. He is said to have been in close contact with a colonel from the Russian domestic secret service FSB.
"The accusations that I am an agent of Moscow's influence are baseless and in no way correspond to reality," he told SPIEGEL. Schmidt described the allegations about a “spy in the Bundestag’ or “an alleged secret meeting in Potsdam” as “fighting the opposition”