Overview
- Justice Martha Devlin of the B.C. Supreme Court found Majcher not guilty Wednesday after delivering roughly 90 minutes of reasons.
- Majcher had faced one count of carrying out preparatory acts to aid a foreign government under Canada’s security law, with prosecutors alleging he acted as a proxy to push a Canadian resident to return to China in 2017.
- Devlin said she had doubt about the nature and extent of his actions and ruled the Crown did not prove the alleged conduct beyond a reasonable doubt.
- The Crown leaned on a disputed email as key proof, while the defence called the case purely circumstantial and said there was no link to businessman Kevin Sun.
- The trial also revealed RCMP cooperation with visiting Chinese police, including a 2018 Vancouver visit where three officials were unaccounted for for six hours, which raised concerns about illicit repatriation tactics.