A former Twitter employee was found guilty by a federal grand jury Tuesday of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia and participating in a money laundering scheme.
Ahmad Abouammo, 44, was arrested after the alleged scheme in 2019 on charges of wire fraud and working as an agent of a foreign government without proper disclosure. He was accused of relaying personal user data to Saudi Arabia in exchange for a luxury watch and hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the Justice Department.
During his time at Twitter, he allegedly obtained information about accounts that were critical of the Saudi government and relayed that information back to the kingdom, according to prosecutors. The data he amassed allegedly included phone numbers and email accounts. Abouammo had been recruited in the scheme by Bader Binasaker, also known as Alzabarah to Al Asaker, who served as a top adviser to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, prosecutors alleged. During the course of the trial, prosecutors presented a timeline of Abouammo's meeting with Binasaker, including a tour he allegedly gave the Saudi adviser of Twitter's headquarters in June 2014, Court House News reported.
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