The U.S. justice Department accuses two former Twitter employees to have for Saudi Arabia spies. The allegations were made known on Wednesday in front of a district court in San Francisco.

This is the Washington Post and other U.S. media reported the same day. Accordingly, the two men, a U.S. citizen and a Saudi Arabian citizens are to have used their position at the Internet group, to obtain the private account information of government critics.

An arrest in Seattle

the espionage allegations were also against a third party from Saudi Arabia charged. This Person is supposed to be occurred as a middle-man. The TV station CNN according to one of the men on Tuesday in Seattle (the US was taken state of Washington) fixed. The other two would probably stop in Saudi Arabia, it said. You are looking for.

The American law shooter US companies against such “unlawful foreign interference,” – quoted by the “Washington Post” from a message by David Anderson, the Prosecutor of the Ministry of justice. Thousands of Twitter users were affected by the alleged exploits on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. According to the complaint, the Twitter employees in the period from 2013 to 2015 in the short message service were employed. (chk/sda)

Created: 07.11.2019, 04:31 PM