According to the party, more than a million election campaign flyers of the AfD should not have been distributed.
The party announced on Friday - two days before the federal election - that a service provider had offered a few weeks ago on favorable terms to distribute the advertising material to households.
However, it has now turned out that this service provider does not even exist and that the party has thus been deceived.
According to the AfD, the artist collective “Center for Political Beauty” (ZPS) is behind the action.
For this, a website was faked with great effort and the VAT number of a completely ignorant entrepreneur was illegally used, according to the report distributed by the party.
District associations and candidates of the AfD in Lower Saxony, Berlin, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate are likely to be affected by the action.
The party announced that it would promptly file a criminal complaint.
AfD top candidate Tino Chrupalla said: “This unprecedented action does not only affect the AfD.
There has already been considerable damage to democracy here. "
According to the editorial network Germany, the accused artist collective has not yet responded to the accusation.
In the past, the ZPS was noticed, among other things, by building a replica of the Berlin Holocaust memorial on the neighboring property of the Thuringian AfD politician Björn Höcke.
Höcke once called the memorial designed by Peter Eisenman a “monument to shame”.