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- AfD leader Alice Weidel allegedly knew of illegal €132,000 donations weeks before publicly claiming ignorance.
- A July 2017 email shows Weidel told the party treasurer she had been notified of the payments.
- The hacked cache of over 420,000 AfD accounts was released online on Monday.
- Germany fined the AfD €396,000 for routing the donations through Swiss intermediaries, breaching the non-EU funding ban.