(Ottawa) Cameron Jay Ortis, a former intelligence official with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), was found guilty by a jury of violating the Information Protection Act.
Jurors found Ortis guilty of three counts of violating the Information Protection Act and one count of attempting to do so.
They also found him guilty of breach of trust and fraudulent use of a computer.
Ortis, 51, had pleaded not guilty to all charges, including violating the Information Protection Act by revealing secret information to three people in 2015, and attempting to do so in a fourth case.
Ortis argued at trial that he offered secret material to people who were targets of RCMP investigations, in an attempt to entice them to use an online encryption service set up by an allied intelligence agency to spy on opponents.
The Crown argued that Ortis did not have the authority to disclose secret documents and that he was not doing so as part of an undercover operation authorized by the RCMP.