A CBC News investigation has identified the Canadian woman arrested last week in Belgium on espionage charges as Biwei Zhang, a systems engineer who has previously worked for the Canadian Space Agency and Statistics Canada. Identifying information from Zhang's social media profiles, graduate thesis and a federal court case matched Belgian authorities' description of the NATO intern apprehended on Friday.

A Canadian woman was arrested and accused of espionage while working as an intern in the operational headquarters of the NATO military alliance

Die Frau chinesischer Herkunft war im militärischen Hauptquartier aufgefallen, was zu ihrer Festnahme führte. Der Verdacht: Spionage für einen Drittstaat.