Gavin De Becker, a longtime security consultant, who is the security chief for Amazon.com’s chief executive Jeff Bezos has concluded that the Saudi Govt accessed and gained private information from it. He has handed over the findings of his investigation to U.S. federal officials.

Gavin De Becker, a longtime security consultant, who is the security chief for Amazon.com’s chief executive Jeff Bezos stated, the Saudi government had access to Bezos’ phone and had gained private information from it.

These are his conclusions from his investigation into the publication in January 2019 of a leaked text messages between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, a former television anchor who according to the National Enquirer tabloid, Bezos was said to be dating.

Following this report by the National Enquirer, Bezos had accused the owner of the National Enquirer of attempting to blackmail him with the threat of publishing “intimate photos” he allegedly sent to Sanchez unless he said in public that the tabloid’s reporting on him was not politically motivated.

In an article for The Daily Beast website, De Becker said the parent company of the National Enquirer, American Media Inc., had privately demanded that De Becker deny finding any evidence of “electronic eavesdropping or hacking in their news-gathering process.”

“Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’ phone, and gained private information,” wrote De Becker. “As of today, it is unclear to what degree, if any, AMI was aware of the details.”

A spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington did not immediately return a request for comment.

In February 2019, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs had said The Kingdom had “absolutely nothing to do” with the National Enquirer’s reporting on the affair.

A representative for AMI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

AMI has previously said that it acted lawfully in the reporting of the Bezos story.

De Becker said he has turned over the findings of his investigation to U.S. federal officials, without elaborating any further.