{"id":77346,"date":"2026-05-15T00:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/14\/canada-police-spying-china-acquitted"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:03:53","slug":"canadian-officer-accused-of-spying-for-china-acquitted-of-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77346","title":{"rendered":"Canadian officer accused of spying for China acquitted of charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Majcher was accused of helping Chinese police coerce a Vancouver-area real estate investor, accused of fraud, to return to China<\/p>\n<p>A retired police officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\">Canada<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/21\/retired-canada-police-officer-arrested-foreign-interference-china\">accused of being an agent for China<\/a> has been acquitted of national security charges after prosecutors failed to prove he acted illegally.<\/p>\n<p>William Majcher, who served in the RCMP\u2019s financial crime unit, was charged in 2023 over allegations he had breached Canada\u2019s Security of Information Act by helping Chinese police coerce a Vancouver-area real estate investor, accused of fraud, to return to China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/14\/canada-police-spying-china-acquitted\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Majcher was accused of helping Chinese police coerce a Vancouver-area real estate investor, accused of fraud, to return to ChinaA retired police officer Canada accused of being an agent for China has been acquitted of national security charges &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"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":[246,41,244,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77346","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\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77347,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77346\/revisions\/77347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}