Two other Saudis accused of spying for the Kingdom on Twitter after the US conviction of Ahmed Abu Ammo.. Who are Al-Mutairi and Al-Zubarah?

- Europe and Arabs
- Friday , 12 August 2022 14:58 PM GMT
New York, USA (CNN)-- Ahmed Abouammo, the former director of the social networking site, Twitter, was convicted of spying for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, which sparked an interaction about the details of the case. The Saudi national, Ali Alzabarah, a former colleague of Abuamou, is also accused of accessing Twitter accounts on behalf of Saudi Arabia, except that he left the United States before being charged. Two other Saudis in the case of spying for the Kingdom after the conviction of America, Ahmed Abu Ammo? Ahmed Al-Mutairi (right) in a photo taken in 2016 / Ali Alzabarah (left) in a photo taken in 2015 according to the FBI, plain_text Credit: FBI According to the lawsuit filed in 2019, the role of Ali Alzabarah, along with Ahmed Abuammo, was to exploit their ability as Twitter employees to collect sensitive and not publicly available information about dissidents and opponents of the Saudi regime. As for the Saudi citizen, Ahmed Al-Mutairi, according to the lawsuit, he is accused of working as an intermediary between Twitter employees and the Saudi government, as according to the prosecution document, he gave the two men (Abouamou Al-Wazbara) hundreds of thousands of dollars in addition to the “Happlo” watch. CNN in Arabic contacted the Saudi embassy in America to obtain a comment about Al-Mutairi and Al-Zubarah, without a response as of writing this report. The FBI provided information about the Saudis in 2019, as follows:

Ahmed Saad Al-Mutairi: More commonly known as Ahmed Al-Jibreen, wanted for failing to register as an agent of a foreign government as required by US law in 2014 and 2015 Alleged that Al-Mutairi was involved in the theft of confidential information about users of the American company, Twitter, for the benefit of the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the information The stolen items included email addresses, phone numbers, and Internet addresses of Saudi dissidents, critics of the Saudi government, and others. In the prosecution document, Al-Mutairi was also accused of working between Twitter employees and the Saudi government, as according to the prosecution document, he provided the two men hundreds of thousands of dollars in addition to a luxury "Happlo" watch. Ali Hamad Alzabarah: Wanted for failing to register as an agent of a foreign government as required by US law, in 2015 Zabara allegedly had a role in the theft of confidential information about users of the US company, Twitter, for the government of Saudi Arabia. According to the lawsuit, Alzabarah, a web engineer, was able to access the information of more than 6000 Twitter users, and due to his role in the company, Alzabarah is able to determine the IP addresses of the targeted users in addition to their email, phone numbers and a list of all their Twitter activities at any time

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