Ex-RCMP civilian intelligence official from Abbotsford convicted of leaking secrets
Cameron Ortis will be sentenced Jan. 12-13.
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Cameron Ortis will be sentenced Jan. 12-13.
OTTAWA — A jury has found former RCMP intelligence official Cameron Jay Ortis guilty of breaching Canada's secrets law.
Cameron Ortis was found guilty of leaking classified information to suspected criminals in a landmark ruling on a historic espionage case.
During his bail hearings in October 2019, federal prosecutor Judy Kliewer alleged former RCMP intelligence official Cameron Ortis was in the final stages of a plan to pass state secrets to a "foreign entity."
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.