Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie has today revealed his predecessor died mysteriously in a Kenyan hotel room - and may have been poisoned.
The tech specialist said Dan Muresan was found dead in 2012 amid reports that a deal he was working on went 'sour'.
And he heard talk the Kenyan police had been bribed not to enter the hotel room for 24 hours in a bid to cover up the possible murder.
He made the explosive comments to a committee of MPs investigating the spread of fake news.
Rumours that the death could have been murdered will fuel concerns about Cambridge Analytica and the shady world it operated in.
Mr Wylie said his predecessor had been working for President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election campaign when he was found dead.
He 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.'
He added: 'That is what I was told - I was not there so I speak to the veracity of it.'
Mr Wylie said that when he joined Cambridge Analytica in 2012 he did not know the name of his predecessor or what happened to him.
But he asked his colleagues after he could not find a file he was hunting for. It was then that he heard the rumours about the death, MPs were told.
Mr Muresan was the son of former Romanian Agriculture Minister Ioan Avram Muresan, who is now in prison for corruption charges.
His mysterious death made the news in his home country.
According to a report of his death which ran in 2012 in the Bucharest Herald, the 32 year-old had studied at the LSE in London and had coordinated election campaigns in Europe, Africa and the US.
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.'
In a lengthy appearance in front of the select committee, Mr Wylie also made more claims about questionable activities carried out by the SCL Group, a strategic communications company linked to CA.
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