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A Canadian woman who was an intern at NATO’s military headquarters in Belgium has been arrested on spying charges, Belgian prosecutors said Saturday.<\/p>\n
“She is suspected of spying on behalf of a third country and of being a member of a criminal organization,” the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The woman was as an intern at NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in the Belgian city of Mons, it said. The prosecutor’s office described her as a Canadian national of Chinese origin, but didn’t name or provide more details of her identity. They did not specify the third country or criminal organization to which she’s allegedly linked.<\/p>\n
CBC News reached out to Belgium’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office for more information.<\/p>\n
SHAPE is NATO’s top military headquarters, the base of Allied Command Operations, which is responsible for planning and carrying out all operations of the 32-member transatlantic security alliance.<\/p>\n
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The suspect had come to the attention of SHAPE\u2019s security services, which reported her\u00a0to Belgian intelligence officials, according to the statement.<\/p>\n
Investigators searched\u00a0the suspect’s home and\u00a0her\u00a0workplace at SHAPE, and she was placed under arrest on Friday.<\/p>\n
A SHAPE spokesperson\u00a0said there was\u00a0no indication that NATO or SHAPE operational readiness, command and control arrangements or ongoing tasks\u00a0had\u00a0been affected.<\/p>\n
“SHAPE continues to fulfil its responsibilities without interruption.”<\/p>\n
The\u00a0prosecutor’s\u00a0office said it would make no further comment\u00a0as\u00a0investigations\u00a0continued.<\/p>\n
CBC News also is working to contact the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Department of National Defence, and will update this story with any response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-825520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}