Cameron Ortis, RCMP official accused of breaking secrecy law, released on bail – National | 24CA News

A senior RCMP official accused of breaking Canada’s secrecy legal guidelines has been launched on bail after spending three years behind bars awaiting trial.

The causes behind the Ontario Superior Court choose’s resolution to free Cameron Ortis at Wednesday’s bail evaluate listening to are protected by a publication ban. The resolution was confirmed to Global News by the Public Prosecution Service.

Ortis, who was director-general of the RCMP’s National Intelligence Coordination Centre, was arrested and charged in 2019 with a number of counts below Canada’s Security of Information Act. He has been accused of being a mole within the senior ranks of the nationwide police power and offering delicate police data to an unnamed international entity.

He was briefly granted bail in October 2019 and ordered to stay together with his mother and father in Abbotsford, B.C., and forbidden from utilizing any machine that connects to the web. A choose revoked his bail a month later, and Ortis has been in custody ever since.

Ortis’s trial is scheduled to start in October 2023 and can final for about eight weeks.

He faces a complete of 10 expenses below numerous provisions, together with below the secrecy legislation and the Criminal Code, that date between 2015 and 2019.

— with recordsdata from Global’s Sam Cooper