A Canadian police officer is accused of transmitting confidential information to Rwanda. Of Rwandan origin, the man was arrested last weekend by the federal police in the state of Alberta. He is charged with three criminal counts, including secretly communicating data to a foreign country.
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Gendarmerie officer near Calgary, Eli Ndatuje is accused of having used his position to access information from the federal police.
And to have transmitted them to a foreign country, in this case Rwanda. He is being prosecuted for breach of trust and unauthorized use of a computer. The facts date back to April 2022.
According to the Canadian press, a federal police team opened an investigation after observing data leaks. She discovered that these had been transmitted to the Rwandan embassy in Canada or to an individual with a diplomatic passport from the same country. The nature of the data has not been revealed, but it would involve non-confidential information, such as the Canadian resident’s address, their driving license, license plate, criminal record.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have said they are committed to fighting foreign interference at all levels.
On social networks, the affair caused a lot of noise. The Rwandan diaspora recalls the surveillance and intimidation methods of the Rwandan regime abroad, to crush all dissent. Citing the example of a genocide survivor, critic of the regime in place, who since his exile in Canada has been the subject of a harassment campaign on social networks.
Remember that in 2013, the former head of Rwandan intelligence, who became an opponent of the regime, Patrick Karegeya was found dead in Johannesburg in suspicious circumstances.