OTTAWA SEEKS TO HIDE "SENSITIVE" DETAILS Of FOREIGN INTERFERENCE CASE From PUBLIC VIEW

Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: The federal government is seeking to shield from public view some details of the case against a former Canadian Space Agency engineer accused of negotiating on behalf of a Chinese aerospace company.

Last December, the RCMP charged 61-year-old Wanping Zheng with breach of trust in a case police say is tied to foreign interference.

Wanping Zheng is accused of using his status as an engineer at the CSA to negotiate satellite station installation agreements with Iceland on behalf of a Chinese aerospace company.
A source with knowledge of the investigation said the company Zheng is accused of helping is called Spacety. It's a Chinese company specializing in satellites that can take high-resolution images.

According to his Spacety biography, Zheng claimed to have overseen a number of aerospace projects, including "the establishment and implementation of a number of major Canadian national aerospace projects," while at the Canadian Space Agency.