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A former Twitter worker has been convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia.
Ahmad Abouammo, a dual U.S.-Lebanese citizen and a former Twitter manager, was convicted on six criminal counts, including acting as an agent for Saudi Arabia and trying to disguise a payment from an official tied to Saudi's royal family, reported CNN.
A close adviser to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, named Bader Al-Asaker, recruited Abouammo to access Twitter accounts and dig up personal information about Saudi dissidents, according to prosecutors.
Those accounts allegedly included @mujtahidd.
For his work, Abouammo received at least $300,000 and a $20,000 luxury watch from Al-Asaker, said the prosecutors. He hid the money by depositing it in a relative's account in Lebanon and having it wired to his own account in the United States, they said.
Abouammo was also convicted of wire fraud and honest services fraud, money laundering and a conspiracy charge.
"The government demonstrated, and the jury found, that Abouammo violated a sacred trust to keep private personal information from Twitter's customers and sold private customer information to a foreign government," US Attorney Stephanie Hinds in San Francisco said in a statement.
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