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Reports: Arrested Canadian Official Oversaw Russia Probe

Agence France-Presse

   MONTREAL - A senior Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) intelligence
   officer arrested this week for allegedly stealing sensitive documents
   oversaw an investigation into the laundering of stolen Russian funds,
   Canadian media reported Saturday.

   The Globe and Mail said Cameron Ortis' arrest was linked to a major
   corruption case that was first revealed by Sergei Magnitsky, who went
   public with details of a $230 million fraud scheme allegedly run by
   senior Russian interior ministry and tax officials.

   Ortis was as recently as August said to be overseeing an inquiry into
   whether some of the money was funneled through Canada, the newspaper
   reported.

   "Ortis, director-general of the RCMP's National Intelligence
   Coordination Centre, was planning to meet for a second time with the
   legal team pursuing the matter alleging more than $14 million in
   Russian fraud proceeds were tied to Canada," The Globe and Mail said,
   citing an unnamed source.

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