00:01Following the arrest of former German Federal Intelligence Service Chief August Hanning on Tuesday,
00:08his long-standing, confident and former head of cabinet, Manfred D., has now also been taken into custody.
00:15Federal prosecutors accuse both men of having used state secrets over many years
00:20to support private consulting activities and foreign interests, a crime that constitutes treason.
00:27Manfred D. has been charged with aiding and abetting and remains in pretrial detention,
00:32while Hanning is being brought before an investigating judge, according to reports.
00:37The two men have known each other since the late 1990s and worked closely together for many years
00:43at the Federal Intelligence Service and later at the Interior Ministry.
00:48The arrangement is believed to have been in place since 2010.
00:52Investigators bugged Manfred D.'s property and monitored him for months in a high profile prop.
