Conversations intercepted by Canada and the United Kingdom implicate high-level Indian officials in the assassination of a B.C. Sikh leader, Global News has confirmed.
British intelligence provided Canada with the initial tip that it had picked up communications tying India’s government to the 2023 shooting death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Canadian authorities later obtained their own intercept corroborating the involvement of Indian officials, among them Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah.
“It is the U.K.’s long-standing position that we do not comment on intelligence matters,” a spokesperson said on Thursday.
The intercepts would be “strong evidence,” since they come from the Five Eyes intelligence partnership between Canada, the U.K., U.S., Australia and New Zealand, said Dan Stanton, a former senior Canadian Security Intelligence Service officer.
“This is the gold standard of alliances,” said Stanton, who is writing a book on transnational repression.
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