"FBI" is investigating ... those close to Bin Salman have learned of the Bezos phone being hacked

The American Wall Street Journal revealed Thursday that officials close to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman learned of plans to hack into the phone of the CEO of Amazon and the owner of the Washington Post newspaper, Jeff Bezos, confirming that the American FBI is investigating the incident.

The newspaper quoted officials - whom you did not name - that those close to Muhammad bin Salman were aware of the existence of a plan to hack the Bezos phone only, without knowing any attempts to use this information (resulting from the penetration) to blackmail.

She noted that among the officials who were aware of this plan was the advisor of the Saudi Crown Prince at the time, Saud Al-Qahtani, who said that he was also involved in the breach.

She noted that the breach was part of a campaign of intimidation and intimidation against the background of the work of journalist Jamal Khashoggi - who was killed and beheaded inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year - with the Washington Post.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the hacking of Bezos.

Khashoggi worked with the newspaper before killing him at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul in October 2018.

International media considered that Khashoggi’s work with the Washington Post was the beginning of the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Bezos.

How did the hack happen?
According to the Guardian newspaper - which revealed the details of the incident - the breach occurred five months before the Khashoggi killing.

She also pointed out that there is a close relationship between the CEO of America Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, David Baker, and the Saudi crown prince.

It started in April 2018, when Bezos attended a dinner party with the Crown Prince and exchanged numbers. Then - specifically in May of the same year - Bezos received an encrypted video file that was sent from the WhatsApp personal account to the Saudi crown prince, followed by the start of massive leaks From the data from the Bezos phone.

Bezos then said that he received WhatsApp messages from Muhammad bin Salman containing private and confidential information about his personal life, according to what was reported by the media between November 2018 and February 2019, the period that followed the murder of Khashoggi.

In January 2019, the National Enquirer began publishing private conversations with Bezos that were leaked from his phone, and brought him together with his former broadcaster girlfriend, Fox TV, Lauren Sanchez.

One month before the private messages were leaked, Jeff's wife Mackenzie Bezos announced that she was planning to divorce, confirming that they had been separated for a long time.

UN claim
On the other hand, a statement issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Anis Calamar, and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression David Kay confirmed that criminal analysis of the operation of the Amazon company owner Jeff Bezos, through a message from Muhammad bin Salman, can be evaluated as reliable It has a degree between medium and high.

The two UN rapporteurs said that piracy of Bezos phone required an immediate investigation by the US authorities and others concerned with this matter.

The two UN officials announced that they had information indicating the "possibility of" Muhammad bin Salman's involvement in the penetration of the Bezos phone, and called for an immediate investigation.

The UN statement indicated that the program that Muhammad bin Salman used to hack Pezos' phone was the "Pegasus" program of Israeli electronic espionage.

On Tuesday, the Saudi embassy in Washington denied suggestions that the crown prince had hacked Bezos 'phone, and the embassy said on her Twitter account that recent media reports hinting that the kingdom was behind Jeff Bezos' phone piracy were "ridiculous."