The ZDF frontal/OCCRP-assisted review of leaked AfD emails focuses on Markus Frohnmaier, AfD deputy parliamentary group leader and, since mid-2025, foreign-policy spokesman. Emails from 2018 show staff forwarding VS-NfD classified Bundestag and government materials to Frohnmaier's private AOL address, including OSCE Berlin conference dossiers, Foreign Office records on Ukraine negotiations, files on the Syrian civil war, material on the Skripal poisoning, and dozens of weekly Defence Ministry briefings on Bundeswehr missions abroad. The Bundestag administration told ZDF that VS-NfD contents may only be processed and stored on approved, officially managed IT and that violations can have criminal relevance. Separately, the leak shows Frohnmaier met Syrian UN ambassador Bashar al-Jaafari in New York on 15 July 2018 and, on 20 July 2018, wrote that his staff were collecting information on the 'Cash for Work' aid program and that he would send it quickly. A staff member had requested a Bundestag Research Service dossier and Arabic translation on 19 July 2018; later internal correspondence said this had been commissioned because they wanted to send something on Cash for Work to the Syrian UN representative. In November 2018, Frohnmaier submitted a parliamentary question with 17 sub-questions on the program. ZDF notes that no actual transfer to Syrian representatives is visible in the fragmentary hacked correspondence. Frohnmaier denies providing secrets, collecting information for third parties, or receiving benefits.

The ZDF frontal/OCCRP-assisted review of leaked AfD emails focuses on Markus Frohnmaier, AfD deputy parliamentary group leader and, since mid-2025, foreign-policy spokesman. Emails from 2018 show staff forwarding VS-NfD classified Bundestag and government materials to Frohnmaier's private AOL address, including OSCE Berlin conference dossiers, Foreign Office records on Ukraine negotiations, files on the Syrian civil war, material on the Skripal poisoning, and dozens of weekly Defence Ministry briefings on Bundeswehr missions abroad. The Bundestag administration told ZDF that VS-NfD contents may only be processed and stored on approved, officially managed IT and that violations can have criminal relevance. Separately, the leak shows Frohnmaier met Syrian UN ambassador Bashar al-Jaafari in New York on 15 July 2018 and, on 20 July 2018, wrote that his staff were collecting information on the 'Cash for Work' aid program and that he would send it quickly. A staff member had requested a Bundestag Research Service dossier and Arabic translation on 19 July 2018; later internal correspondence said this had been commissioned because they wanted to send something on Cash for Work to the Syrian UN representative. In November 2018, Frohnmaier submitted a parliamentary question with 17 sub-questions on the program. ZDF notes that no actual transfer to Syrian representatives is visible in the fragmentary hacked correspondence. Frohnmaier denies providing secrets, collecting information for third parties, or receiving benefits.