Former Canadian police intelligence head sentenced to 14 years for leaking secrets
Cameron Ortis was convicted of passing secret material in a case that shocked the Canadian intelligence community
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Cameron Ortis was convicted of passing secret material in a case that shocked the Canadian intelligence community
A jury has found a former senior intelligence official in Canada’s national police force guilty of breaching the country’s secrets law. Jurors declared Cameron Jay Ortis guilty of three counts of violating the Security of Information Act and one count of attempting to do so. Ortis had pleaded not guilty to all charges, including violating the secrets law by revealing classified information to three individuals in 2015 and trying to do so in a fourth instance. He testified he offered secret material to targets in a bid to get them to use an online encryption service set up by an allied inte...
Cameron Ortis from RCMP convicted of violating Security of Information Act in one of Canada’s largest ever security breaches
OTTAWA — A jury has found former RCMP intelligence official Cameron Jay Ortis guilty of breaching Canada's secrets law.
A high-stakes American gambler who is an FBI informant and goes by the nickname Robin Hood 702 played a key role in a series of events that eventually led the RCMP to charge their head of intelligence, Cameron Ortis, with leaking secrets.