Ahmed Abuammo was found guilty of spying on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government on Tuesday (August 9th). He shared the personal information of platform users, who used anonymous accounts to criticize the royal family that ruled the country.

Case details

• A jury has reached its verdict in federal court in San Francisco, where Abuammo was also convicted of fraud, money laundering and falsification of records.
• Before Worked as a media partner manager at Twitter and helped celebrities from the Middle East and North Africa promote their pages.
• The spy used its location to access the email addresses, phone numbers and birth dates of users who were critical of the government and royal family.
• All this information was received by the Saudi Arabian authorities at that time. From November 2014 to May 2015.
• In return, they gave “gifts” to Abuammo.

The charges in this case were brought back in 2019. At the time, the Justice Department was also suspicious of another former Twitter employee, Ali Alzabara. In 2020, the charges were expanded to include a third person, Ahmed Almutairi, who allegedly coordinated the plan. Both are currently wanted by the US government.

According to the source, the prosecution accused Abuammo of working with an aide to Mohammed bin Salman, who is now Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, to suppress dissent. itself Abuammo claimed he was just doing his job and instead accused Twitter of not protecting user data..

The Saudi spy now faces 10 to 20 years in prison. Twitter declined to comment on The Verge.