USA: A former Twitter employee was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Obamamo, a former media manager at the company, was convicted of providing information about more than 6,000 users on the social network who are opponents of the kingdom's regime.
He was recruited by Bin Salman's advisor and received in return $300,000 and a luxury watch worth $20,000.
He faces a sentence of 10-20 years in prison
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10/08/2022
Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 05:54 Updated: 06:10
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"Transferred information on more than 6,000 users."
Bin Salman (Photo: Reuters)
Ahmed Obama, former director of Twitter, was convicted tonight (Wednesday) in the federal court in San Francisco in the United States of spying for Saudi Arabia.
This, after providing personal information about the users of the social network who are opponents of the kingdom's regime.
He faces a sentence of 10-20 years in prison.
Obama, who served as the social network's media director, appears to have been recruited by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's adviser, Badr al-Askar.
In exchange for the information, he received a luxury watch worth $20,000 and another $300,000 in cash.
To hide the funds he received, he deposited them in the account of his relative in Lebanon.
The indictment against him indicates that he and Ali Alzabara, a citizen of Saudi Arabia who left the United States before being charged, transferred personal information to the kingdom about more than 6,000 users of the social network who are opponents of the regime.
Among other things, information was provided about the social activist Omar Abdul-Aziz, close to the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The jury convicted that Abuemmo of two counts of bank fraud or conspiracy to commit bank fraud, two counts of money laundering, one count of falsifying accounts to avoid an FBI investigation and one count of acting as an agent of a foreign government.
However, Abuammo was acquitted of five additional counts related to fraud.
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