The Saudi Arabian government came close to buying control of Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team, according to hacked emails posted by WikiLeaks. The deal collapsed in early 2014 after the removal of Prince Bandar bin Sultan as head of Saudi intelligence service. The company’s spokesman says the talks had never been close to completion. The Saudi-owned company was to be called Halo — the circular symbol used to denote a saint in Christian art — and the price was set at 37 million euros (US $42 million)”]
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