Suspect Deal Spy has just admitted to handing over the company’s secrets in a major scandal that will shake up the human resources world
According to a new court filing, the man accused of a scandal that shook the HR world, in a scandal that shook the HR world, confessed that he would gather information to one company and pass it on to its rivals.
Keith O’Brien, accused of acting as a spy for HR software company Deel, filed an affidavit this week in an Irish court. There, they say Deel paid to disclose sensitive information about Rippling from another HR software company, a competitor. He says that Deel Alex Bouaziz’s co-founder and CEO directly proposed to spurt his work and work as an insider.
“I recall the particular mention of James Bond,” O’Brien wrote. “I asked him what he meant. He said if I agreed to spy on the ripples of the deal, he would offer me a financial award.”
Deal didn’t respond immediately luckRequest a comment. The ripples didn’t respond immediately luckRequest a comment. Wavy CEO Parker Conrad posted part of the affidavit x Tuesday.
O’Brien writes that Bouaziz was asked to provide information about Rippling’s “how to do things.” O’Brien says he communicated with Boo Aziz multiple times a day, and even over the weekend. According to court filings, in November he was awarded $6,000 for the insights he took over, continuing to receive monthly payments in exchange for valuable information.
At one point, when Ripples begins to suspect something is wrong, O’Brien claims that he bought a Burner phone from Deal’s lawyer from Deal’s legal team, destroying the old phone with x, and pushing it down into his stepmother’s drain. He further argues that he was advised by Deal’s lawyer that he should leave Ireland and fly to Dubai with his family, and that Deal should pay for his accommodation.
O’Brien says he agreed to meet with Ripling’s legal team for an interview in March, writing that he feared his safety “when he was given the power and wealth of those involved.”
“I was tired of hiding this lie,” he wrote in his affidavit. “I realized I was hurting myself and my family to protect the deal.”
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