Gerhard Sabathil, the former diplomat suspected of spying for China has been removed from a list of lobbyists in the EU's Transparency Register, a database run by the EU Parliament and the European Commission, which tracks organisations registered to lobby the EU's institutions.

Earlier in January, German prosecutors said they were investigating three people who were suspected of spying for China that included a former EU diplomat. Sabathil, who is German, has denied the allegations through ...