Fate of Former RCMP Official Accused of Leaking Secrets Now in Hands of Jury

Published on November 20, 2023

The fate of Cameron Jay Ortis, a former RCMP official accused of leaking secrets, is now in the hands of a jury. The 12 jurors retired Nov. 20 to consider a verdict after Justice Robert Maranger finished instructing them on how to approach their task. Mr. Ortis, 51, has testified he offered secret material to investigative targets in a bid to get them to use an online encryption service, secretly set up by an allied intelligence agency to spy on adversaries. He has pleaded not guilty to violating the Security of Information Act by revealing secrets to three individuals in 2015 and trying to do so in a fourth instance, as well as breach of trust, and a computer-related offence....

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