Nirmal Ghosh reports:
Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo – who is now in jail in Thailand in connection with trying to blackmail his former employer, PetroSaudi, which is entangled in a huge scandal involving the Malaysian government – has claimed that he was promised US$2 million (S$2.7 million) in exchange for data he stole from his former employer.
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Justo, a former head of IT at the London office of PetroSaudi, has admitted that he had stolen company data – some 90 gigabytes worth – when he left in 2011.
He said he asked PetroSaudi for more money in 2013 but it turned him down.
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