The details of the employee undulating the espionage of Deel in the affidavit of the courtyard

A undulating employee accused of being a business spy on a rival HR software company admitted to having secretly worked for Deel, according to a new legal file.

The employee, Keith O’Brien, wrote in an affidavit made public in an Irish court on Wednesday that he was recruited as a business spy by Alex Bouaziz, founder and CEO of Deel.

“Alex told me that he had an idea.” He suggested staying on the undulation and becoming a “spy” for Deel, and I remember specifically mentioning James Bond, “wrote O’Brien in Affidavit.

“About thirty minutes later, I recalled Alex on Whatsapp and told him that I was on board with the plan,” added O’Brien.

Affidavit came to legal proceedings in Ireland, where O’Brien worked in one of the satellite offices in Rippling.

The San Francisco-based work-based managing software company has a long and bitter rivalry with Deel. Each company was evaluated north of $ 10 billion.

In March, the undulation continued Deel before the Federal Court of San Francisco, alleging that Deel transformed O’Brien – which was not appointed in the trial – into a business spy.

Rippling said that O’Brien had collected company secrets on the Slack, Salesforce and Google Drive networks of the company, then transmitted them to Deel, giving the Rival a competitive advantage.

O’Brien said in the newly deposited affidavit that he had collected information on the management of Bouaziz. His first conversations with Bouaziz were told in a section entitled “I am starting to spy on for Deel”.

“Alex was particularly interested in the strategies of abandoning global pay and expansion efforts, as well as revising specific sales, marketing information and customer details,” wrote O’Brien. “Alex would give me a direction on the terms to search for the Slack system of Rippling in order to provide the information he wanted.”

For his work, O’Brien received a monthly payment of $ 6,000 per month, mainly in cryptocurrency, he wrote. He also communicated with Philippe Bouaziz, Alex’s father and Department of Deel, he wrote in the Affidavit.

Deel representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

The company previously declared that it refuses “all legal reprehensible acts” and would file a reconvention against undulan.

Rippling declared in his trial last month that O’Brien was caught after the company designed an elaborate honey pot operation which led him to search for information in a Slack Channel can called “# D-Defectors”, where undulating employees have allegedly discussed the information that Deel would find embarrassing.

In the new affidavit, O’Brien wrote his managers to Deel realized that the ripple had put the trap – but not before it was too late.

“I did the search immediately and I started to look at the results,” wrote O’Brien. “In a few minutes, Alex sent me a message again and told me not to do the research because he thought it was a” trap “.”

“I told Alex that when I received his message, I had already done the research and he said” Oh shit “,” continued O’Brien.

Rippling declared in his trial that he brought O’Brien’s spy on the attention of an Irish court, who appointed a lawyer at the Rippling office to grasp his electronic devices to examine.

When O’Brien was confronted with the lawyer, he hid in the bathroom and seemed to try to rinse his phone in the toilet, rowing.

In the Affidavit of O’Brien, he declared that the appearance of the lawyer made him realize “how serious it was” and that he “panicked”.

He did a factory reset on his phone in the bathroom and “rinsed the toilet a few times,” he wrote.

O’Brien left the undulating office and contacted Alex Bouaziz, he wrote. A Deel lawyer asked him to get rid of his phone, he wrote.

“He told me to destroy my old phone by breaking it up and throwing it into the channel,” he wrote.

The next day, O’Brien “broke my old phone with an ax and put it in my mother-in-law’s house, as Deel’s lawyer had advised,” he wrote.

Deel also proposed to move the whole family of O’Brien to another country, he wrote.

“Deel Asif’s lawyer said they would move me and my family to Dubai and find a mechanism to cover my legal costs,” wrote O’Brien.

O’Brien said he had become frustrated by the people of Deel, who, according to him, wanted to promote a false story accusing the undulation of rape the Russian sanctions to “change the story”.

Deel lawyers have also deleted their messages and made it difficult to join them, he wrote.

After a few days, O’Brien agreed to cooperate with the undulation, he said.

“I was getting sick, hiding this lie,” he wrote. “I realized that I was hurting myself, me and my family, to protect Deel.”

“I was worried, and I am still worried, how rich and powerful Alex and Philippe are, but I know what I was doing was bad,” he continued.