Twitter staffer turned Saudi spy jailed for 3.5 years
A Twitter employee who spied for the Saudi government and royal family has been sentenced to three and half years behind bars in America.by a jury of acting as an unlawful foreign agent, and committing conspiracy, wire fraud, international money laundering, and falsification of records in a federal investigation.
At the time, Abouammo was facing up to 20 years behind bars for, while working for Twitter in the US, leaking to Saudi Arabia sensitive information about 6,000 Twitter accounts that could be used to identify and locate users who were of interest to the Saudi royals. Instead, a judge this week sentenced Abouammo to 42 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. The judge also ordered him to forfeit $242,000 — the monetary value of a luxury Hublot watch and cash Abouammo received as bungs for passing on the info. He'll begin serving his prison sentence on March 31, 2023.
"Mr Abouammo violated the trust placed on him to protect the privacy of individuals by giving their personal information to a foreign power for profit," Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen said in a ."His conduct was made all the more egregious by the fact that the information was intended to target political dissidents speaking out against that foreign power."
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