WASHINGTON: The security chief for amazon’s ceo Jeff Bezos says the saudi government had access to bezos’s phone and gained private information from it.

A longtime security consultant, Gavin de Becker said he had concluded his investigation into the publication in January of leaked text messages between Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, a former television anchor who the National Enquirer tabloid newspaper said Bezos was dating.

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de Becker wrote on The Daily Beast website, "Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos' phone, and gained private information.”

He said that while the brother of Bezos's mistress was paid by the National Enquirer scandal sheet for the release of the information, his role may have been a red herring, and the plot went far beyond one man seeking to cash in.

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In February, Bezos accused the National Enquirer’s owner of trying 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.