Christopher Wylie

The Cambridge Analytica whistle-blower, Christopher Wylie revealed his dead predecessor, Dan Muresan, whose lifeless body was found in a hotel room in Kenya may have been poisoned.

Muresan, was on President Uhuru Kenyatta's 2012 re-election campaign team when he died 'mysteriously'.

Mr. Wylie alleges Kenya police were bribed to stay off the crime scene for 24 hours in other to cover up possible murder.





Speaking to the committee of MPs investigating the spread of fake news, Mr. Wylie said:

"Cambridge Analytica was working with Kenyan politicians, but because in a lot of African countries if a deal goes wrong you pay for it.

"Dan was my predecessor....what I heard was that he was working on some kind of deal of some sort - I'm not sure what.

"The deal went sour.

"People suspected he was poisoned in his hotel room. I also heard that the police had got bribed not to enter the hotel room for 24 hours.

"That is what I was told - I was not there so I speak to the veracity of it."

Christopher Wylie with MPs on Cambridge Analytica

Romania's Foreign Ministry told the Bucharest Herald at the time:

"The Romanian citizen was working with a British telecommunications company, being in Kenya for a while.

"He had not yet registered his presence on Kenyan territory with the Romanian diplomatic mission.

"The same source shows that after the police arrived, the body was taken by an undertaker company for an autopsy."





An IT expert, Paul-Olivier Dehaye, told the committee:

"My understanding relating back to your predecessor Dan Muresan.

"There are stories that have come out in India…he was working for Congress apparently according to reports.

"But apparently he was really paid for by an Indian billionaire who actually wanted Congress to loose.

"So he was pretending to work for one party while actually paid by someone else.’

He called for cooperation between the three countries in a bid to unravel the mystery surrounding Mr Muresan's death.





He claimed that SCL Group , a strategic communications company linked to CA, had been involved in a project in Nigeria in 2015 which had illegally obtained private informations of Muhammadu Buhari, who was running for president.





He alleges AIQ had distributed compromising materials a.k.a kompromat, and videos designed to intimidate Mr Buhari's supporters.





He continued:

"The company utilised the services of an Israeli private intelligence firm, Black Cube.

"Black Cube on the Nigeria project was engaged to hack the now-president Buhari to get access to his medical records and private emails.

"AIQ worked on that project. AIQ was handed material in Nigeria from Cambridge Analytica to distribute online.

"That's distribution of kompromat and of incredibly threatening and violent video content which I've passed on to the committee.

"The videos that AIQ distributed in Nigeria with the sole intent of intimidating voters included content where people were being dismembered, where people were having their throats cut and bled to death in a ditch, they were being burned alive.

"There were incredibly anti-Islamic and threatening messages portraying Muslims as violent."









Mr Wylie alleged that another firm, AIQ, worked on a project in Trinidad & Tobago, which involved attempts to collect the internet data of the entire population of the country.





He said:

"You've got AggregateIQ, who received 40 per cent of Vote Leave's spending, also involved in projects which involved hacked material and kompromat and distributing violent videos of people being bled to death to intimidate voters.

"This is the company that played an incredibly pivotal role in politics here.

"Something that I would strongly recommend to the committee would be that they push the authorities here and give them the support they need to investigate this company."

He accused SCL of helping politicians win elections in African countries in a selfish bid to broker commercial deals and line their pockets.





Describing how SCL operates, Mr Wylie said:

"You can be a colonial master in these countries...it was very much like a privatized colonial operation"

He also revealed more details about the characters behind Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group.





He alleges that CA's chief executive, Alexander Nix , had set up a hoax office in Cambridge in an attempt to woo Steve Bannon , Donald Trump's former chief strategist.





He said:

"You have to remember that a lot of these people are very wealthy already."

"Alexander Nix in particular - there was one time when we were running late because he had to pick up a £200,000 chandelier."

"These are people who don't need to make a lot of money, but the thing that I learned is that for certain wealthy people, they need something to keep them occupied and they need projects."

"Going into the developing world and running a country is something that appeals to them."

Cambridge Analytica plunged into huge controversy after Mr Wylie alleges that it collected data from 50 million Facebook users illegally.





My Wylie told that Mr Nix was "exceptionally misleading" and "dishonest" in his evidence to the committee.





He also accused Dominic Cummings , the strategist at Vote Leave who is credited with masterminding the victory, of finding ways of cheating in the Brexit referendum.





Mr Wylie said he found ways to bust spending limits by telling other Brexit backing organisations including BeLeave to use their money to pay for a digital advertising blitz by AIQ.





He said:

"This is cheating....if you cheat on an exam you get a fail if you chat on the Olympics you lose your medal. You should not win by cheating."

"There could have been a different outcome in the referendum had there not been cheating."

He stated that Cambridge Analyica is not a legitimate firm and that 'no good' has come from it.