Spying in Canada (Video)

Another two Russian diplomats leave Canada Click on the background of the spy scandal that erupted two weeks ago, Canadian media reported, citing unnamed sources.

According to the channel C -ti- integer, and the newspaper Globe and Mail, went home the military attache of the Russian Embassy in Ottawa, Sergei Zhukov and a member of the consulate in Toronto, Dmitry Gerasimov.

The Canadian Foreign Ministry did not comment on the information. At the same time, according to the C -ti- integer, the Russian Embassy said that the embassy staff left at the end of time travel.

Previously reported Canadian Press dispatch from the other four Russian diplomats. This supposedly happened after January 17th in Halifax on the Atlantic coast of Canada, was arrested by the Canadian Navy Lieutenant Jeffrey Paul DeLisle.

Officer charged with the transfer of classified information to foreign government. If convicted, he faces life in prison. Some Canadian media reported that a foreign government has in mind Russia.
Cases of espionage.

According to documents submitted to the court, 40 -year-old DeLisle contributed to data leakage in the period from July 2007 to January 2012.

Under assumptions of the experts, the information transmitted by the accused, could relate to the movement of the navy of Canada and its allies in the North Atlantic Alliance.

February 28 the court shall set a date for hearing on the release of Lieutenant bail.

Last week, a lawyer Delilah suddenly refused to participate in the process, not explaining the reasons for its decision.

Cases of espionage - a rarity in Canada, but in the last five years, such cases are more frequent.

Thus, the Press in 2006, was deported from the Ottawa man accused of transferring classified information Russia. He lived in the capital for ten years on false documents.

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