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Former employee of Twitter on Tuesday was found guilty of spying on users of a social network in order to Saudi Arabia, that he wanted to know the identities of people who criticized the regime and the royal family.
A jury in San Francisco found that Ahmad Abuammo sold personal information of anonymous users to Riyadh for tens of thousands of dollars.
Pleaded guilty
A man can be sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for working for a foreign government, money laundering, fraud and forgery. He will be sentenced later.
“Evidence showed that for money and while he was thinking of doing it in secret, the defendant sold his position” as an employee Twitter person close to the royal family Saudi Arabia, U.S. Attorney Colin Sampson testified before a jury last week after a two-week trial.
The verdict came after human rights activists criticized US President Joe Biden for changing his stance on Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, whom he banned from being seen as a “rogue” following the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the consulate. Saudi Arabia in Turkey in 2018.
Numerous NGOs regularly accuse the Saudi regime of spying, kidnapping and torturing dissidents, which Riyadh denies.
Ahmad Abuammo He was arrested in Seattle in November 2019 in an espionage case that began in 2014 that also accused another former Twitter employee, Saudi Arabia’s Ali Alzabara, who had fled the US.
According to Abuammo’s lawyer Angela Chuang, her client was tried instead of Alzabara. “Obviously, the defendants wanted by the government are not here,” he said.
quiet twitter
Twitter brought to the attention AFP that you do not want to comment on the verdict.
The platform accuses its former employee of not following company rules by not telling his superiors that he received $100,000 and a watch worth more than $40,000 from a person close to the Saudi monarchy. (AFP)
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