Tech billionaire, Elon Musk has accused employees at the US Institute of Peace of deleting a terabyte of financial data to their cover crimes.

Musk, however, said that the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, was able to recover the deleted data as it has better understanding of the technology.

The Tesla CEO made this known in a post on his X handle on Tuesday while replying to post claiming that the DOGE team fought for days to gain access to the United States Institute of Peace.

The post also claimed that DOGE discovered massive fraud, waste and abuse-including payments to Taliban and Iraq.

The statement comes after Musk’s DOGE sent employees email notices of their mass firing, the latest step in the President Donald Trump administration’s government downsizing.

The emails were sent to personal accounts as most staff members had lost access to the agency’s system on Friday.

In his post on X, Musk suggested that any government institution is most likely to be the opposite of its name.

He said: “Any government institution is most likely to be the opposite of its name.

“They deleted a terabyte of financial data to cover their crimes, but they don’t understand technology, so we recovered it”.

USIP: They deleted a terabyte of financial data to cover crimes – Elon Musk