An Ontario Superior Court justice has sentenced Cameron Ortis — the former RCMP intelligence official found guilty late last year of leaking secret information to police targets — to 14 years in prison.
Accounting for his time served, the former civilian member will serve more than seven years behind bars.
The decision Wednesday marks a first in Canadian history.
Ortis, 51, was found guilty in November of all six charges against him, including violating Canada’s secrets act.
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Cameron Ortis — the former RCMP intelligence official found guilty late last year of leaking secret information to police targets — will learn his fate later this morning when an Ontario Superior Court judge hands down his sentence.
The defence, meanwhile, has argued that the former civilian member of the RCMP endured hardships while in custody waiting for his trial to begin and shouldn’t serve another day behind bars.
Crown prosecutors successfully argued that Ortis used his position within the RCMP — leading a unit that had access to Canadian and allied intelligence — to leak sensitive information to police targets in early 2015.
The jury found Ortis guilty of leaking special operational information “without authority” to Phantom Secure CEO Vincent Ramos — who sold encrypted cellphones to organized crime members — and to Salim Henareh and Muhammad Ashraf, two men police suspected of being agents of an international money-laundering network with ties to terrorists.
Kliewer argued that a more lenient sentence would send a signal to allies that Canada can’t protect their sensitive information.
Kovrig, who spent over 1,000 days in solitary confinement, said someone with Ortis’s “high intelligence and … curious mind” shouldn’t “rot in a prison cell for the sake of deterrence.”
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