The US Department of Justice has submitted a new indictment in the case of spying via Twitter in favor of Saudi Arabia, filed in an American court, to include fraud, money laundering, forgery, and tampering with evidence.

Hours after the US Attorney General’s request to drop the charges in the case, the Ministry directed the new list of charges for the three suspects, led by Ahmed Al-Mutairi (also known as Ahmad al-Jibreen), assistant director of the Saudi Crown Prince’s office, and two former Twitter employees of American origin of Lebanese origin, Ahmed Abu Amo and Saudi Ali Ali Al Zebara. .

The new indictment included 7 charges instead of two that were on the first list, headed by working illegally for foreign government clients without notifying the Ministry of Justice, money laundering, vandalism, unlawful possession, and altering or falsifying records during a federal investigation.

New evidence was presented documenting that Ahmed Al-Jibreen inaugurated a company as a front for transmitting information for the "Samaya" company, which is managed by Bader Al-Asaker, director of the Saudi Crown Prince's office.

Not only was the indictment expanded on the charges and the accused, but its preamble was drawn more clearly, and it revealed how the process took place, who were involved, and how Ahmed Al-Mutairi created a fake company that he used as a front to pay money to Abu Amo, and also to transfer information to Riyadh.

The indictment also specified a Saudi official who was the mastermind of those operations, but did not name him, but referred to him with the symbol "Officer No. 1 ″," and that American media suggested that Badr Al-Asaker, who was director of the private office of the Saudi crown prince, before he went into hiding. , Which raised many unanswered questions at the time.

And standing on this whole process - according to the list - a member of the Saudi royal family was not named, but symbolized by the individual No. 1.

Here is a timeline of the most important stages of the Saudi hacking of accounts on Twitter:

December 12, 2014 or a date close to it
, the Abu Amo account began hacking into Twitter user # 1 data that posted information critical of the Saudi royal family and member number 1 of the royal family.

February 5, 2015
Foreign Official No. 1 sent an email to his "Abu Amo" job account on Twitter with a link related to Twitter user # 2 who accused him of impersonating a member of the royal family.

February 7, 2015
Abu Amo entered unauthorized access to Twitter computers, and accessed Twitter user # 2 information, including his email address.

February 13, 2015
No. 1 foreign official deposited $ 100,000 in a newly opened account in Lebanon in the name of a relative of "Abu Amo," and before the resignation of "Abu Amo" from Twitter facilitated a meeting between the Zabara and al-Mutairi.

In mid-May 2015
, the No. 1 foreign official directed the Al-Zubara family to move from California to Virginia, while the No. 1 ruling family member was visiting Washington, and the Al-Zubara family and Al-Mutairi met in Virginia, before the Al-Zubara family returned to California on November 28, 2015.

After returning to California, Al-Zubarah hacked the secret information of dozens of Twitter users, including those who published information critical of the Saudi government and the member of the Royal Family No. 1, and then Al-Zubarah sent this secret information to foreign official No. 1 and others.

May 29, 2015
Al-Zubarah and the foreign official No. 1 exchanged 3 phone calls, and Al-Zubarah broke into two Twitter accounts, and on the same day the Saudi government submitted a disclosure request related to the same two accounts.

July 2015
while Al Zubara was on a private holiday in Saudi Arabia, he hacked hundreds of accounts on Twitter and accessed classified information using his data as a Twitter employee.

December 2, 2015,
after the Twitter administration confronted Al Zubarah with his unauthorized entry to Twitter user accounts and placed him on administrative leave, he tried to contact Al-Mutairi, then contacted the foreign official No. 1, who in turn contacted an official at the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles to coordinate the Al Zubarah departure for Saudi Arabia.

December 3, 2015 The
Al Zubara family flew to Saudi Arabia and sent their resignations via email.