Wednesday, waving publicly released the affidavit The official who testified that he worked as a spy for the Arch opponent of Deel Technology.
And the account, coupled with the Rippling lawsuit filed against Deel last week, reads as a corporate espionage movie script, complete with a stinging business and a crushed phone.
It is the last disappointment between the two. TechCrunch has documented most parts of Hollywood-Esque the testimony below, but you know that this is only one side of the story-the ripple side wants everyone to know, as the PRO machine has launched and Managing Director Parker Conrad Tweet-Stormed for this.
To recapitate: ripple, labor management platform, very publicly publicly announced Last week that he was involved with Deel for this alleged espionage, the leveling fees ranging from the breach of the Rico Raco Racketeering law (often used to prosecute the mafia members) to abuse commercial secrets and unfair competition.
But at that moment, he did not reveal the name of the employee. This changed on Wednesday, when it released the affidavit it signed on April 1st.
Become a corporate spy
According to this affidavit, Keith O’Brien was hired in July 2023 in the World Payroll and Compliance Department at the Dublin Office.
At the beginning of 2024, an interview for a job on the Deel and did not get it, but did it, testified, associated with the founder of the Deel on LinkedIn. The employee later started a payroll consultant, threw Deel to work with him and finally told them he was planning to stop waving to work full -time.
The employee testified that Deel’s CEO Alex Bouaziz and Bouaziz’s father, Philippe Bouaziz, the Deel’s CFO, suggested that, instead of abandoning, O’Brien is spying on to shake them.
O’Brien testified that they were offered to pay him € 5,000 a month with the first payment to US $ 6,000 and later to Crypto transactions.
O’Brien testified that he was conducting searches on Slack, Google Drive and other ripple resources for information and to share his contacts to Deel via Telecom.
He examined information on sales drivers, product routes, customer accounts, names of superstar employees, information on sanctions and everything else requested, O’Brien filed.
The trial claims that the espionage was held for four months and says that in a single day he shared information on hundreds of companies who asked for a wavy show, hundreds of notes on perspectives from sellers and details of Deel customers.
Caught by a simple trap
O’Brien believed he was carefully wiping evidence, but, he testified, later discovered some of the screen recordings he had taken with his phone, they were supported in his ICloud account he did not know.
In its lawsuit, the wavy says the company put a trap to get the spy by sending a threatening legal letter to the DEEL leadership. The letter said the ripple officials were talking about information that would bother Deel if they were made public on a loose channel called “D-Defectors”. The Slack channel existed, but it was a ruse, the lawsuit said.
O’Brien testified that he was ordered to look for the D-Defectors channel and shortly after doing so, he was told not to be a trap.
(He says something about the relationship between these two companies that Rippling’s lawyer would even send such a letter, even as a blow, and that he will believe.)
O’Brien was, however, apparently broken in search of this loose channel. On March 14, when he went to the office, a lawyer treated him by court to search for his devices.
He said he turned his laptop, but hid his phone, escaped in the office bath, wiped his phone in factory arrangements and pretended to rinse it.
Later “he broke my old phone with an ax and put it under the drainage of my mother’s house” with tips from people who thought he was representing Deel, he testified.
The lawyer tried to stop O’Brien from leaving the office, warning that he would be called upon to testify, but O’Brien left both the lawsuit and the employee described.
O’Brien, who now panicked, immediately exchanged messages with Deel’s chief executive and others that O’Brien believed were Deel’s lawyers, the affidavit said. One of them even proposed Flying O’Brien and his family in Dubai, according to the affidavit, because of the issuing policies there.
During the ongoing exchanges, these people advised him to make statements to various authorities saying that the class facilitated Russian payments and harassed because he was trying to be a complaint.
O’Brien said he initially went with this idea, but testified: “I knew this was false.”
He finally hired his own lawyer and shortly thereafter – after growing anxious and ill for the situation – he chose to work with the authorities and “tell the truth,” the affidavit said.
Deel did not respond to our request for comments, nor did the CEO responded to X but after paying the initial complaint last week, Deel told TechCrunch via a spokesman:
“Weeks after the class are accused of violating the law on sanctions in Russia and sowing false DEEL, the breakwater is trying to shift the narrative with these impressive claims.
However, Rippling’s lawyer believes they have a “smoking weapon”.
“The evidence in this case is undoubtedly. The highest levels of Deel’s leadership are involved in an unstable espionage corporate program and will be held accountable,” said Alex Spiro, a legal adviser to Techcrunch.
And others are growing to welcome ripples. Eynat Guez, CEO of another Deel competitor, world payment platform Papaya Global, Tweeted“As far as we know, this is not a one -off incident. Thank you @parkerconrad for taking the initiative and ending this practice.”
Interestingly, there have been times when the breakwater towards the Deel sparked a reaction to the ripple. Last year, Rippling launched a marketing campaign called “Game Snake” that fell on its opponent. But The ripple was online That’s why.
Reading The complete affidavit here.
