{"id":56846,"date":"2023-07-22T04:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/21\/retired-canada-police-officer-arrested-foreign-interference-china"},"modified":"2023-07-22T04:13:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:13:32","slug":"retired-canada-police-officer-charged-with-foreign-interference-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56846","title":{"rendered":"Retired Canada police officer charged with foreign interference for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Majcher arrested and facing two charges under the Security of Information Act<\/p>\n<p>A retired police officer in Canada has been arrested and is facing rare charges under the country\u2019s national security laws, police said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>William Majcher, 60, \u201callegedly used his knowledge and his extensive network of contacts in Canada to obtain intelligence or services to benefit the People\u2019s Republic of China\u201d, the Royal Canadian Mounted police said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca\/en\/news\/2023\/retired-rcmp-officer-charged-foreign-interference\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/21\/retired-canada-police-officer-arrested-foreign-interference-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Majcher arrested and facing two charges under the Security of Information ActA retired police officer in Canada has been arrested and is facing rare charges under the country\u2019s national security laws, police said on Friday.William Majcher, 60, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,244,50,667,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-china","category-espionage","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56847,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56846\/revisions\/56847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}