Ahmad Abouammo found to have given users’ personal information to Mohammed bin Salman’s aide
employee has been found guilty of spying on Saudi dissidents using the social media platform and passing their personal information to a close aide of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.found Ahmad Abouammo, a dual US-Lebanese national, had acted as an unregistered agent of the Saudi government.
In return, Asaker is said to have given him a $20,000 watch and paid a total of more than $300,000 to an account in Lebanon set up in Abouammo’s father’s name., the Saudi government first made contact with Abouammo in May 2014, asking him to arrange a tour of Twitter’s San Francisco office for a group of Saudi “entrepreneurs”. The group, which included Asaker and other employees of the crown prince, visited San Francisco the following month.
Almutairi, who is accused of acting as a middle man for Asaker, requested an “urgent meeting” near Twitter headquarters in San Francisco to discuss their “mutual interest”, according to the indictment. The same month a first payment of $100,000 was paid to the account set up in Abouammo’s father’s name in Lebanon, to which Abouammo had access. Another $200,000 was paid into the account after Abouammo resigned from Twitter in May 2015, the indictment says.
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