Prosecutors in federal court in San Francisco told jurors that Abouammo sold Twitter user information for cash and an expensive watch some seven years ago. Report: Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia and money laundering https://t.co/3x1oESs2kh via @WSJ — NCSC (@NCSCgov) August 9, 2022AdvertisementDefense attorney Angela Chuang countered that while there certainly appeared to be a conspiracy to get revealing information about Saudi critics from Twitter, prosecutors failed to prove Abouammo was part of it. Abouammo quit Twitter in 2015 and took a job at e-commerce titan Amazon in Seattle, where he lives, according to court documents. Jurors deliberated for three days before finding Abouammo guilty on 6 of the 11 charges against him. A third man named in the complaint, Saudi citizen Ahmed Al-Mutairi, was alleged to have worked with the Saudi royal family as an intermediary.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 10, 2022 01:38 UTC