American Military News by George Kelly 11/7/2019
A federal complaint alleges that two former Twitter employees took bribes from a member of the Saudi royal family in exchange for improperly accessing user information to help the family and track critics, with one worker alleged to tell a foreign official that “we will delete evil my brother.â€
The former employees, identified as Ali Alzabarah, 35, of Saudi Arabia, and Ahmad Abouammo, 41, of Seattle, were charged with acting as illegal agents of a foreign government, along with a 30-year-old Saudi national identified as Ahmed Almutairi. Abouammo was also charged with destroying, altering or falsifying records in a federal investigation.
The federal complaint describes members of the Saudi royal family and government anonymously, referring to “Royal Family Member-1†and “Foreign Official-1.†It describes initial contacts between Abuammo, a media partnerships manager for the company, and a PR firm representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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