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OpenAI engineer charged with bugging exec room booked flight to Saudi Arabia

10/14/2026

Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national charged with secretly installing a recording device in an OpenAI executive conference room, booked a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia with his wife and a third family member days before his arrest.

Federal prosecutors revealed the travel plans in a court filing unsealed by the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco, which argued that Alfozan had both the means and the incentive to flee the United States.

12 from San Francisco via Istanbul, were discovered before Alfozan was taken into custody on Oct.

The criminal complaint alleges that OpenAI staff found a surreptitious audio recording device inserted into a USB port on the back of a television in a conference room on Sept.

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