A retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer has been acquitted of national security charges after a British Columbia court found prosecutors failed to prove he acted illegally. William Majcher, who served in the RCMP's financial crime unit and now works as a private investigator in Hong Kong, had been charged in 2023 under Canada's Security of Information Act over allegations he helped Chinese police pressure a Vancouver-area real estate investor to return to China. Justice Martha Devlin ruled the evidence was "entirely circumstantial" and that the original arrest appeared based on a "hunch or generalized suspicion," a significant outcome in a case that had drawn wide attention amid broader concerns about Chinese interference in Canadian affairs.