OpenAI engineer booked one-way Saudi flight before arrest
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Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Oct. 8 to seal criminal charges against OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan because he, his wife and a third family member had booked one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia for four days later, according to court filings made public this week. Alfozan, a Saudi national, was arrested by the FBI because he allegedly hid a recording device in an OpenAI conference room used by executives. In a motion to seal, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Parker wrote that the three had booked flights from San Francisco, via Istanbul, for Monday, Oct. 12. Disclosure of the charging documents “might jeopardize the defendant’s arrest,” Parker wrote, adding that Alfozan “has the means—and will have an incentive—to flee the United States sooner if he learns about this case before he…
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