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Cameron Ortis, 51, faces a total of six charges, including an allegation of breach of trust and a computer-related charge

A German encrypted email service has denied claims by a former Canadian police intelligence officer under trial for selling sensitive secrets to criminals that it acted as a “storefront” for law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Cameron Ortis, a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) intelligence officer, who is charged with allegedly passing on sensitive operational information, claimed in a court hearing that the email service, Tutanota, was lined-up to collect intelligence on organised criminals. The claims were categorically denied by the encrypted email provider, now...

Cameron Ortis, the former RCMP intelligence official on trial in Ottawa, said he was tipped off by a counterpart at a "foreign agency" that the people he's accused of leaking secrets to had "moles" inside Canadian police services.

A major issue in Mr. Ortis’s trial is whether he in fact had authority to carry out the actions that he did, which involved contacting the subjects of international police investigations

The FBI, Australian Federal Police, Europol, and other agencies announced 800 arrests as part of Greenlight / Trojan Shield, a sting operation based on a compromised FBI-run encrypted messaging service called Anom.