{"id":30548,"date":"2026-07-27T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/30548\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:06:10","slug":"minister-says-espionage-allegations-against-canadian-in-belgium-are-quite-serious-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/30548\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister says espionage allegations against Canadian in Belgium are \u2018quite serious\u2019 | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785193570_274_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two men walk past the NATO logo during the NATO Defence Industry Forum at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo\/Hussein Malla)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 27, 2026 | 3:30 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree committed Monday \u201cto get to the bottom\u201d of the arrest of a Canadian in Europe on spying charges. <\/p>\n<p>The Belgian federal prosecutor\u2019s office said Saturday that \u201ca Canadian national of Chinese origin\u201d had been arrested on charges of espionage and participation in a criminal organization.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who was not named in the office\u2019s statement, worked as an intern at NATO\u2019s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor\u2019s office said she came to the attention of SHAPE\u2019s security services, who reported the matter to Belgium\u2019s military intelligence agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men walk past the NATO logo during the NATO Defence Industry Forum at the NATO summit in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,2894,16700,16694,16701,16693,16695,16696,144,16697,16698,16699,1176],"class_list":["post-30548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-breaking-news","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116994453469997396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}