Corruption allegations “vehemently contradicted” – AfD board supports Bystron. SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert calls the ByStron case “worrying’ AfD top politician speaks of a “witch trial” “But there can be no doubt that the AfD sees itself as Russia’s mouthpiece in Germany,” says Notz in “Report from Berlin’ The AfD chairman of the parliamentary control committee, Konstantin von Notz, described the connections between AfD and the Russian state as “very problematic”