A Brossard, Que., man has been charged with breach of trust for allegedly using his status as a Canadian Space Agency engineer to negotiate satellite station installation agreements with Iceland on behalf of a Chinese aerospace company.
The man, 61, was the focus of an October 2019 investigation by the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET).
The investigation was launched after CSA’s security department sent information to INSET, the RCMP said in a news release Wednesday.
The man is scheduled to appear in court in Longueuil on Dec. 15.
INSET’s aim is to detect and disrupt any foreign interference. It investigates activities
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