--- title: August Hanning espionage case slug: august-hanning-espionage-case qid: snapshot: enwiki-001379076511 content_hash: license: CC BY-SA 4.0 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1379076511 tags: [1225629, 24487331, 55585021, 63697623] --- # August Hanning espionage case > [!note] Provenance > Snapshot `enwiki-001379076511` · content root `…` > Derived from · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 The August Hanning espionage case is a criminal investigation by Germany's Federal Public Prosecutor General concerning allegations against August Hanning former President of the German Federal Intelligent Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND), from 1998 to 2005. Hanning is accused of having paid the former employee Manfred D. to supply him with classified BND documents over the course of years. Hanning receiving around 2000 internal documents by this and was using them in his work as a private intelligent consultant. The German prosecutors also suspect he used the information to write an analysis for a officer of an foreign power of another intelligence service, as well as passing political information to other intelligent officers from an foreign power. Hanning and his former chief of staff Manfred D., were arrested on 6 October 2026, despite Hanning and his lawyer denying the allegations. The August Hanning espionage case is a criminal investigation by Germany's Federal Public Prosecutor General concerning allegations against August Hanning former President of the German Federal Intelligent Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND), from 1998 to 2005. Hanning is accused of having paid the former employee Manfred D. to supply him with classified BND documents over the course of years. Hanning receiving around 2000 internal documents by this and was using them in his work as a private intelligent consultant. The German prosecutors also suspect he used the information to write an analysis for a officer of an foreign power of another intelligence service, as well as passing political information to other intelligent officers from an foreign power. Hanning and his former chief of staff Manfred D., were arrested on 6 October 2026, despite Hanning and his lawyer denying the allegations.