US EditionNew Zealand Soldier Convicted of Attempted Espionage, a First for the Country
- On August 18, 2020, at a military trial held close to Palmerston North, a New Zealand serviceman confessed to charges of attempted espionage.
- The soldier was caught after attempting to hand sensitive military information to an undercover officer between December 5 and 12, 2019, believing the officer was a foreign agent.
- He provided phone directories and sought to pass maps, security vulnerabilities, access codes, and his own credentials that allowed unauthorized military system access.
- The soldier admitted charges of attempted espionage, dishonest system access, and possessing objectionable Christchurch mosque attack material, each carrying up to seven or 10 years in prison.
- This case marks New Zealand’s first military espionage conviction since a 1975 civilian acquittal and reflects ongoing military and government monitoring of extremist-related threats.
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The Frontier PostNZ soldier sentenced to two years’ detention for attempted espionage
A military court sentenced a New Zealand soldier on Wednesday to two years' detention for attempting to spy for a foreign power. The soldier, whose name has been suppressed, admitted to attempted espionage, accessing a computer system for a dishonest purpose and knowingly possessing an objectionable publication. He was ordered into military detention at Burnham
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