Exclusive: Former Mountie William Majcher, accused of being an agent for China, says he's a 'patriot not a traitor'

William Majcher is accused of being a foreign agent for China, and charged under the Security of Information Act, the law used in Canada to prosecute alleged spies and turncoats.

Former Mountie William Majcher has made a career out of deception and dancing on the edge of danger. As a young officer, he nearly died after being jumped from behind and smashed repeatedly in the head with a steel bar. After transitioning into undercover work, Majcher was planted in the same cell as an Air India terror suspect. He infiltrated the Medellin drug cartel and was warned he was on a hit list after a $100,000 bounty was put on his head.

His subterfuge maximized his easy-going demeanour and commerce degree from St. Mary’s University, allowing him to pose as a clean cut expert in money laundering. This work in the shadows came in handy when he was tasked to run the B.C. office of the RCMP’s financial crime unit before retiring in 2007.

Now, Majcher is accused of being a foreign agent for China, and charged under the Security of Information Act, the law used in Canada to prosecute alleged spies and turncoats.

“I’m a patriot, not a traitor,” Majcher said in an exclusive interview with CTV National News in Toronto.

“I’ll stand in a courtroom. I’ll take a polygraph and I’ll challenge any of these people making the accusations to take a polygraph,” he said.

The charges stem from Majcher’s time in Hong Kong where he has lived for nearly two decades after retiring from the national police force. Since moving there, Majcher says he has worked with Chinese investment banks and law firms to recover stolen assets that were being laundered overseas. In 2016, he co-founded a EMIDR, a corporate asset recovery firm based in Hong Kong.

In his hour-long interview, Majcher said that he was aware the RCMP were investigating him and flew to Canada from Hong Kong last July to “deal with the issue.”