“In 2016, Yasser Elabd noticed a $40,000 payment to a client in Africa that didn’t smell right.”
The “client” was a former employee fired for poor performance. Elabd pushed for answers, became a pariah and lost his job. Microsoft already paid $25 million in 2019 to settle bribery cases in Hungary and Saudi Arabia, and Brad Smith called it “completely unacceptable.” The whistleblower says the money kept flowing, and the people moving it kept getting promoted.