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Criminal

Dec. 16, 2022

Former Twitter employee sentenced for aiding Saudis

Ahmad Abouammo was sentenced to 42 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $242,000. He passed along confidential and sensitive information that could be used to identify and locate Twitter users of interest to the Saudi Royal Family.

A former employee of Twitter was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for passing data on Saudi dissidents to representatives for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Ahmad Abouammo passed along confidential and sensitive information that could be used to identify and locate Twitter users of interest to the Saudi royal family, read a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California, which prosecuted the cas...

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