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The defendant, Abdulhai Jurat, stood silently through most of the trial, but his attorney presented an energetic and detailed defense.

Finally, Jurat spoke briefly from the dock, denouncing the proceeding as a “show trial” and adding, “At the end of 35 years of service, I should be appreciated, not tried in front of the media.”

It was that Jurat was himself a longtime military prosecutor.

The cash he was convicted of pocketing came from relatives of an ex-cop — sent to prison for illegally keeping his service weapon — whom Jurat had the power to set free.

“Germany’s stance is this: They want to expel by force the Afghan refugees whose cases have been rejected,” said Islamuddin Jurat, spokesman for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation.