This Thursday, Keith O’Brien came to the High Court with his wife to learn his fate. He was hoping to avoid prison. He had admitted to violating a High Court order to preserve information by destroying his phone with an axe and dumping the pieces in a drain. O’Brien is the Dublin man at the heart of a corporate espionage case involving two multi-billion-dollar US HR multinationals. He was employed by one of them, Rippling, and accused of being a mole in the company on behalf of the other, Deel. Rippling accused Deel of placing a “spy” in its Dublin…

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