The affidavit of a undulating employee caught the espionage of Deel lits as a film

On Wednesday, Rippling published publicly the affidavit of the undulating employee who testified that he was working as a spy for the Deel rival of the HR technology company.

And the account, associated with the Rippling trial, deposited against Deel last week, reads like a script of business spy film, with a bite operation and a broken phone.

This is the last getaway between the two. Techcrunch has documented the most Hollywood parties of the testimony below, but know that this is only one side of history – the corrugated side wants everyone to know it, because its public relations machine exploded it, and the CEO Parker Conrad Tweet was trained on this subject.

To summarize: Rippling, a labor management platform, announced very publicly last week that he was pursuing this alleged espionage, leveling of accusations ranging from the violation of the Rico Racket Act (often used to pursue the members of the mafia) to the embezzlement of commercial secrets and unjust competition.

But at that time, that did not reveal the name of the corrugating employee. This changed on Wednesday, during its publication, the Affidavit signed on April 1.

Become a business spy

According to this affidavit, Keith O’Brien was hired by rushing in July 2023 in the World Payroll department and compliance at the Dublin office.

At the beginning of 2024, he interviewed for a job at Deel and did not understand it, but said, he said, connects with the founder of Deel on Linkedin. The employee then launched a payroll consultation company, launched Deel to work with him and finally told them that he had planned to stop ringing to work full time.

The employee testified that the CEO of the founder of Deel, Alex Bouaziz and the father of Bouaziz, Philippe Bouaziz, the financial director of Deel, suggested that, instead of leaving, O’Brien hopes on them.

O’Brien testified that they had proposed to pay him € 5,000 per month, with the first payment at US $ 6,000, and subsequent transactions in crypto.

O’Brien testified that he had carried out research on Slack, Google Drive and other undulating resources to obtain information and communicated to his contacts at Deel via Telecom.

He has given information on prospects, product roadmaps, customer accounts, names of superstar employees, information on sanctioned countries and all that has been requested, said O’Brien.

The trial alleys that espionage took place for four months and said that in one day, he shared information on hundreds of companies that asked for a undulating demo, hundreds of notes on the prospects of sellers and details on the customers of Deel to which the undulants were talking.

Taken by a simple trap

O’Brien thought he was carefully wiped out evidence, but he testified, he later discovered that some of the screen recordings he had taken with his phone were saved on his iCloud account without him.

In his trial, Rippling says that the company has put a trap to take out the spy by sending a threatening legal letter to the management of Deel. The letter indicated that undulating employees were talking about information that would embarrass Deel if they were made public in a Slack chain called “D-Defectors”. The Slack channel existed but it was a cunning, said the trial.

O’Brien testified that he had been invited to search the chain of defectors and shortly after, it was said not to – that it could be a trap.

(That said, something about the relationship between these two societies that Gippling’s lawyer would even send such a letter, even as a ploy, and that it would be believing.)

O’Brien was apparently exploded by looking for this Slack chain. On March 14, when he entered the office, a lawyer confronted him with a court order to search his aircraft.

He testified that he had returned his laptop but hid his phone, escaped in the office bathroom, wiped his phone on factory settings and pretended to rinse it.

Later, he “broke my old phone with an ax and put it in my mother-in-law’s house” on the advice of the people he believed to represent Deel, he said.

The lawyer tried to prevent O’Brien from leaving the office, warning that he would be called upon to testify, but O’Brien was left, both the trial and the employee described.

O’Brien, now panicked, immediately exchanged messages with the CEO of Deel and others that O’Brien believed to be Deel lawyers, said Affidavit. One of them even suggested Flying O’Brien and his family in Dubai, according to Affidavit, due to extradition policies.

During ongoing exchanges, these people advised him to make declarations to various authorities saying that the undulation facilitated Russian payments and that he was harassed because he was trying to be a denunciator.

O’Brien said he had first accepted this idea, but said: “I knew it was wrong.”

He finally hired his own lawyer, and shortly after – after having become anxious and sick about the situation – he chose to cooperate with the authorities and “tell the truth,” said Affidavit.

Deel did not respond to our request for comments, and his CEO did not respond to X. But after the file was filled last week, Deel told Techcrunch via a spokesperson:

“Weeks after the arms accused of having violated the law on sanctions in Russia and the sowing of lies on Deel, we try to move the story with these sensationalized affirmations. We refuse all legal reprehensible acts and we are impatient to assert our reconvention requests. ”

However, Rippling’s lawyer thinks they have a “smoking pistol”.

“The evidence in this case is undeniable. The highest levels of Deel leadership are involved in a cheeky business espionage program, and will be held responsible,” said Alex Spiro, legal advisor for wavy, in Techcrunch.

And others get up to applaud the waves. Eynat Guez, CEO of another competitor in Deel, the global global Papaya payment platform, tweeted: “As far as we know, it is not a unique incident. Thank you @parkerconrad for taking the initiative and ending this practice. ”

Interestingly, there have been times when the Bouffonneries from Nippling to Deel caused a backlash towards undulation. Last year, Rippling launched a marketing campaign entitled “Snake Game” who opposed his rival. But the ripple was plugged in online on this subject.

Read the full affidavit here.