More Details Surface Surrounding Arrest of Senior Canadian Intelligence Official…

[Sanguine]

Posted on September 17, 2019   by sundance

Mercedes Stephenson from Global News has done some excellent follow-up coverage on the arrest of RCMP Intelligence Director Cameron Ortis.  Mr. Ortis is facing seven serious charges of intelligence violations including obtaining information to pass to a “foreign entity.”  The intelligence compromise is the biggest scandal in “a generation”.

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A man named Victor Ramos was the CEO of Phantom Secure, an enterprise that provided encrypted communication devices to criminal agents involved in drug smuggling, money laundering and human trafficking.

Ramos was arrested by United States FBI officials in Washington State.  Ramos gave the FBI information about intelligence for sale that was coming from a source deep inside the Five-Eyes intelligence apparatus.  That information led to RCMP Director Cameron Ortis.

The scale of the compromise is still being analyzed. ....

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/09/17/update-more-details-surface-surrounding-arrest-of-senior-canadian-intelligence-official/

[TomSea]

Good, I found the thread, perhaps more info to add:

Cameron Ortis back in court Sept. 27 on spy charges
Defence lawyer Ian Carter says he only has an initial synopsis of the case against Ortis
Catharine Tunney · CBC News · Posted: Sep 20, 2019 10:43 AM ET


Cameron Ortis makes his first court appearance in Ottawa on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. The civilian employee with an RCMP intelligence team faces several charges under the Security of Information Act. (Sketch by Laurie Foster-MacLeod for CBC News)

The lawyer for Cameron Ortis, the RCMP intelligence director accused of preparing to share classified secrets, says he's still waiting for key information.

Last week, Cameron Ortis, 47, was charged under the Security of Information Act.

The director general of the RCMP's national intelligence co-ordination centre is accused of preparing to share sensitive information with a foreign entity or terrorist organization. He's also charged with sharing operational information back in 2015.

Read more at: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ortis-bail-hearing-1.5290929

So, it's good to have a picture or at least, an image of these people being discussed.

[TomSea]

I'm not sure if this is the same scandal where the RCMP went in and investigated but this does involve the RCMP too and China in fact:

Canadian government scientist under investigation trained staff at Level 4 lab in China

Still no answers in probe of government scientists expelled from National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg
Karen Pauls · CBC News · Posted: Oct 03, 2019


Xiangguo Qiu, her biologist husband and her students have not returned to work at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, after being escorted out in July. RCMP are still investigating what was described by Public Health Agency of Canada as a possible 'policy breach.' (CBC)

A Canadian government scientist at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg made at least five trips to China in 2017-18, including one to train scientists and technicians at China's newly certified Level 4 lab, which does research with the most deadly pathogens, according to travel documents obtained by CBC News.

Xiangguo Qiu — who was escorted out of the Winnipeg lab in July amid an RCMP investigation into what's being described by Public Health Agency of Canada as a possible "policy breach" — was invited to go to the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences twice a year for two years, for up to two weeks each time.

"This will be third-party funded, and therefore no cost to [the Public Health Agency of Canada]," say the documents, obtained through access to information requests. The identity of the third-party was redacted.

Read more at: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/national-microbiology-lab-scientist-investigation-china-1.5307424

I thought I'd add this in to this existing thread. This shows us again, we certainly need to be careful, apparently, with the Chinese. This is pretty horrendous too.