Member of Canadian Military Intelligence Unit Charged With Espionage

Military police have arrested a non-commissioned member of the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service for passing intelligence to a foreign entity. The foreign entity has not yet been identified.

Master Warrant Officer Matthew Robar was arrested on Dec. 10 and faces multiple charges, including for passing on information to a “Foreign Entity.”

The investigation, which began in 2024, was conducted jointly by the Canadian Forces Military Police and the RCMP. Authorities said the investigation “focused on the unauthorized disclosure of safeguarded information to a Foreign Entity.”

Robar faces eight charges, including violating section 17(1) of the Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act. The section makes it an offence to communicate “special operational information to a foreign entity or to a terrorist group if the person believes, or is reckless as to whether, the information is special operational information.” ---More...