Descrease article font size Increase article font size Cameron Ortis, the ex-RCMP intelligence official found guilty of attempting to sell secrets, will serve seven years behind bars as part of a 14-year sentence with time served handed down on Wednesday. Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger delivered the sentence in an Ottawa courtroom Wednesday, after … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Crown attorneys are asking for a maximum sentence for Cameron Ortis, the former senior RCMP officer convicted of leaking secrets to targets of police investigations. If the judge agrees, that would mean multiple decades behind bars for Ortis — once a rising star in the national police … Read more
A jury has declared former RCMP intelligence official Cameron Jay Ortis guilty of disclosing secrets to targets of police interest in violation of the Security of Information Act. The verdict came after weeks of testimony from Ortis and current and former colleagues at the national police force. But there’s much more the jurors didn’t hear. … Read more
A jury has found ex-RCMP intelligence officer Cameron Ortis guilty of sending sensitive information to alleged criminals and money launders in an unprecedented trial. After almost three days of deliberation, the jury found Ortis guilty of four counts of breaching Canada’s official secrets law, one count of breaching trust and one count of misusing a … Read more
There was “no limit” to the amount of classified intelligence that a former senior RCMP analyst had access to during the time when he was accused of leaking secrets, a jury heard last week. The first in a series of censored transcripts of Cameron Ortis’ testimony was released Thursday night, a week after the former … Read more