Elon Musk has sent a third letter to Twitter trying to stop the purchase of the company in question worth 43.3 billion euros.
Musk’s legal team cited the multimillion-euro severance payment to former security chief and whistleblower Peiter Zatko as a breach of the companies’ merger agreement and as a reason to end the deal.
The letter, dated Sept. 9, was sent to Twitter’s chief legal officer, Vihaja Gadde, and was included in a filing Twitter made with the SEC on Friday.
Elon Musk sent his first letter in July, saying that Twitter misled him about the number of bots on their platform, and that the company would not give him access to the information he needed to made his determinations.
This is despite the fact that he was given access to the “firehouse” API which contains all the “tweets” of the platform.
Whether Musk is allowed to end the deal is up to a Delaware court after Twitter sued Musk in July for trying to get out of the deal. In August, Musk filed a second notice to terminate the deal.
The hearing is set to begin on October 17, while Twitter did not respond to a request for comment on the letter.
