Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged on Wednesday to ‘follow up’ on allegations that a spy working for Canadian intelligence smuggled British students to Syria, where at least one of them got married with a member of the Islamic State (IS) group.

According to the British newspaper The Times, in 2015 in the United Kingdom, Shamima Begun, then aged 15, and two friends received help from a human trafficker recruited by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS) to reach It would be ravaged by war.

By then, police had launched an international search for the trio.

Asked about the case at a press conference, Trudeau defended the need for intelligence services to be “flexible and creative in their approaches”. […] in their work to keep Canada and Canadians safe in a very dangerous world”.

At the same time, he said CSIS must abide by Canadian law and its “strict rules” of conduct, and said he hoped those rules “will be adhered to”.

“We will continue to ensure adequate supervision and, if necessary, we will study other measures,” added Trudeau.

The Times report is based on a new book by journalist Richard Kerbaj called “The Secret History of the Five Eyes”.

According to the book, CSIS recruited Islamic State sympathizer Mohamed al-Rashed as a double agent when he showed up at the Canadian embassy in Jordan to seek asylum.

Later, Rashed was arrested in Turkey in possession of travel documents belonging to Begun and her friends.

Canada only privately admitted its involvement with Rashed and asked the UK to help cover it up, Kerbak says in his book.

He also says Canada could not stop the students from traveling because they were already in Syria when Rashed’s superior was informed of the situation.

Now 23 and stripped of her British citizenship, Begun remains in a refugee camp in northern Syria as she files an appeal in the UK to reverse her loss of citizenship.

Her friends Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase are said to have died in a Russian attack or are missing.