Twitter claimed that it had not violated any terms of its $44 Billion (roughly Rs. On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk signed a takeover agreement with Twitter worth 3,499,000 crore. Musk claimed that the microblogging service violated the conditions of the deal while he attempted to terminate the deal. Musk claimed on Friday that he was misled about the number of spam or fake Twitter users. However, he cited Twitter’s $7.75 million payment (roughly Rs. 60 crore) to Peiter Zatko as a reason to walk away from the deal.
According to a Report by Reuters, Twitter has responded to a letter sent by Elon Musk’s lawyers to Twitter, stating that the company did not breach any of the conditions part of the deal to acquire the microblogging platform that was signed earlier this year.
Musk’s lawyers wrote a Twitter letter on Friday, informing that they did not seek his consent before paying $7.75million (roughly Rs. 60 crore) to Zatko, according to the report. According to the report, the lawyers for Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that Twitter was not allowed to make these payments and that he was not required to consent.
In January, Zatko, who was the former head of security for Twitter, was fired. Last month, it was reported that Zatko had filed a complaint claiming Twitter misled regulators by stating that it had a solid security plan,with regard to hackers and its handling of spam or fake accounts.
According to reports, Musk’s laywers claimed that Musk paid $7 million to its whistleblower and former chief of security, roughly Rs. 55 crore) to remain silent about operational problems within the company.
According to the report, Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro claimed the claim at a hearing last Wednesday ahead of the October court battle between Elon Musk (Twitter) and him. The report suggests that the whistleblower is Zatko, who is believed to have been paid by the company for lost compensation after leaving the company.
