A New Zealand military court declared a soldier guilty of spying on Monday, who admitted to having tried to send detailed information on military bases to a foreign country.
However, military justice has not allowed the dissemination of the identity of the soldier in question, nor the name of the country concerned, for reasons related to the investigation.
It is the first individual to be found guilty of such facts in New Zealand, and only the second to be tried, after the acquittal of an official in 1975.
The soldier also admitted to having accessed a computer system for dishonest purposes.
He had fallen into the fold of the authorities, while they were investigating ultra -right movements following the attacks of Christchurch, which left 51 dead in March 2019.
The soldier retained copies of videos of the shootings, as well as a document written by their author, Brenton Tarrant.
The New Zealand government learned that the accused had “made contact with a third party, telling him that he was a soldier wishing to defect“, According to a summary read by the accusation.
The soldier said he could provide “maps and photographs, and that he could possibly introduce a secret device to the army headquarters“.
After this meeting, the soldier had indeed provided cards and images of several military camps, as well as a letter evaluating the vulnerabilities of one of them.
And also delivered access codes and information allowing access to an air base of the North Island without authorization.
During a search at his home, ammunition had also been discovered.
