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More exclusive details tonight on @GlobalNational Re: Cameron Ortis, the RCMP's Director General of the National Intelligence Coordination Centre now charged with trying to sell top secret Cdn intel. More on the investigation and what he was trying to sell #cdnnatsec #natsec
@GlobalNational More details on what Global News has learned regarding the Cameron Ortis investigation. As previously reported, American authorities successfully flipped someone to provide information that identified Ortis. Source says this person was & remains in US custody #natsec #cdnnatsec
@GlobalNational The person who flipped is facing a serious criminal conviction. In a bid to reduce their time behind bars at sentencing the person revealed they had been contacted by someone in the RCMP in 2015. #cdnnatsec #natsec
@GlobalNational This individual said the person contacting them from the RCMP offered to sell criminal information that the police had regarding the individual in question. #cdnnatsec #natsec
@GlobalNational Person who is in US custody did not buy the information offered by the RCMP contact. This individual is facing criminal conviction and worked heavily around criminal syndicates. This person not a state actor or being offered state related intel. #cdnnatsec #natsec
@GlobalNational US called the RCMP who launched an investigation looking at anyone who would have had access to that specific info. They narrowed the field, Ortis had some key flags. Cdn investigators found significant amounts of highly sensitive info when they arrested him #cdnnatsec #natsec
@GlobalNational RCMP were initially working from a list of a number of suspects who work for the Force before they settled on Ortis over an in depth investigation #cdnnatsec #natsec
@GlobalNational Nat sec source: authorities believe Ortis was a "broker of information" so unknown # of potential recipients, one that was allegedly criminal info. Different than some past major nat sec leaks that were going to a single state actor like Russia #natsec #cdnnatsec
@GlobalNational To be clear there's no suggestion investigators aren't looking into whether there may be foreign governments involved, but the one alleged 2015 incident I'm reporting was criminal intel and not foreign government being offered #cdnnatsec #natsec
@GlobalNational The fact that Ortis speaks Mandarin and is an expert in Asia and China has not been lost on investigators #cdnnatsec #natsec
@GlobalNational I'll have more in coming days. Still digging.
