Federal investigators have revealed that Laura Sanchez’s brother, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is the source of intimate images that prompted Bezos to raise the issue of blackmail and hint at the involvement of Saudi Arabia in the case, and federal investigators said that Lauren sent letters about her relationship with Bezos to her brother Michael, who He in turn sold it to the National Encore website for $ 200,000.
The prosecution obtained documents including a text message on May 10, 2018 that was sent from Lauren’s phone to her brother Michael – according to the Wall Street Journal – and Lauren sent another message on July 3, 2018 in which a picture of Bezos “naked al-Sadr”.
The newspaper said – according to what was reported by the Al-Hurra website – that it reviewed the text messages in addition to the amount of 200 thousand dollars that Michael receives from National Inquirer, according to a contract signed in October 2018, and the investigators obtained the documents in the context of allegations from Bezos of being blackmailed after receiving threats from National Inquirer published his intimate photos with Lauren, asking him to determine whether his phone had been hacked or not..
Bezos had indicated a possible involvement of the Saudi crown prince in the case (as a source for the National Enquirer), supported by a recent report from investigators from his side, and statements by UN officials who suggested that the Saudi crown prince sent a malicious message via WhatsApp to the Bezos phone, which caused his penetration.
In February 2019, Bezos said, the National Inquirer was very concerned that Bezos’ Washington Post newspaper would disclose its alleged relationship with Saudi Arabia through its parent company, called AMI, While Saudi Arabia denied these accusations altogether.
Meanwhile, National Inquirer confirmed that Michael was the source of the photos and had begun providing them with them in September 2018, and the spokesman said that “any hint of any third party involvement or influence in the case in any way is incorrect,” but Michael Sanchez denied this and said To the newspaper via e-mail, “With lies and half-truths, the Wall Street Journal continues to make mistakes.”
In January 2019, National Inquirer revealed Bezos’ relationship with Lauren Sanchez, and in the same week Bezos suddenly announced his separation from his wife after a 26-year relationship, and by accusing Saudi Arabia, observers saw Bezos was trying to divert attention from the case, by showing himself as a victim, while the prosecutors did not direct Federalists have so far charged anyone with connection to the leaked Bezos text messages.
It is noteworthy that Facebook chief of global affairs and communications, Sir Nick Clegg, had confirmed, on Saturday, that Facebook, the owner of the WhatsApp application, is very confident that the alleged hack of the phone, Jeff Bezos, the founder of the Amazon company, did not happen through the WhatsApp application; In an interview with “Today” program on “BBC Radio 4”, Sir Clegg, who is the former British Deputy Prime Minister, said that WhatsApp application has “final encryption” that cannot be hacked, and that if there was any piracy, it may have occurred on an operating system The phone is not a WhatsApp application, according to a website i News British.
This statement decisively revealed the incorrectness of the report prepared by a team of investigators from a private cyber security company that was hired by American billionaire Jeff Bezos and founder of “Amazon” to examine his phone and search for how the American newspaper “National Inquirer” obtained intimate pictures of him and his lover, Lauren Sanchez, according to what Reported by “Arabic”.
Clegg said, “We are very confident that the WhatsApp encryption feature has not been compromised.” He added, “It is an encrypted system between a transmitter end to a receiving party, which means that only the sender and the recipient can see the messages .. Also, the messages cannot really be accessed. While transporting it“.
The report of the investigators of the Varanti Cybersecurity Company stated that doubts were being raised about the Bezos phone penetration via the WhatsApp message, and that they were unable to access the basic system of Bezos phone because it had forgotten a password for the application iTunesHowever, Clegg’s statement refutes the allegations mentioned by the investigators in their report.
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