Surrey group executive Alec Stewart told the ECB in July 2012 that England trio Graeme Swann, Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan had admittance to a farce Twitter record taunting Kevin Pietersen.
Stewart claims he was told by its inventor, Richard Bailey, that the trio had passwords to the @kpgenius account.
Pietersen, in his life account, says the record was a sample of "harassing" in England's changing area.
There is no proposal any of the trio helped the record.
Stewart, England's most-topped Test cricketer, said Bailey - who has no official association with the England camp - presented himself as the account's creator amid the Test against South Africa at the Oval in 2012 and uncovered Swann, Broad and Bresnan had entry to it.
Pietersen caricature
A percentage of the tweets posted by 'KP Genius', the informal Twitter record mocking Kevin Pietersen:
"Individuals who say Test cricket is the apex haven't played IPL before 80,000, slapping Indian medium pacers about at a 141% strike rate." (7 August 2012)
"A lot of reward for KP this Test. Ton reward, wkt reward (x4), Mom reward + virtuoso reward. That is more money than the normal human can check." (6 August 2012)
"Note to ex-geniuses. Verify you're superior to KP before you have a pop. Which implies unless you're Don Bradman, keep your mouth close." (30 July 2012)
"It didn't sit agreeably with me as an ex-England cricketer and an England fan that this sort of thing may be going on," Stewart, 51, told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Not on the grounds that I needed them to get fined or anything - I've gigantic deference for every one of the three - yet it didn't sit agreeably with me if accurately right.
"I had a discussion with [then ECB overseeing director] Hugh Morris amid the Oval Test match and afterward with [england coach] Andy Flower at a later date.
"It was then down to the ECB to explore things in the event that they needed to or they could disregard it. After that I don't realize what happened."
Pietersen composed of the trade in the middle of Bailey and Stewart in his book, however Bailey guaranteed in the Guardian this week that he just told the previous England chief that "a portion of the England players may realize that he was behind the tweets".
"The motivation behind why I'm arranged to discuss this is on account of Bailey said he didn't say anything to me, consequently questioning my honesty and I won't have that," said Stewart.
Previous England mentor Andy Flower and Alec Stewart
Stewart, standing right, talked with Andy Flower, standing focus, about his worries
In a different meeting with BBC Radio 5 live this week , Pietersen blamed the ECB for "covering" the issue of the Twitter account regardless of being mindful of "how it made me feel", including that he was "demolished" after he was told that some of his fellow team members may be behind the record.
The England group were addressed separately about the farce account at the time it became visible and all denied being behind it.
Bresnan demanded in August 2012 that the air among the England group was sound, notwithstanding Pietersen saying prior that month that "it is intense being me and playing for England".
The record was shut in the blink of an eye subsequently , with Bailey apologizing "to anybody I know included with England Cricket who I may have put in a clumsy or humiliating position".
Pietersen's England vocation was finished in February 2014 as the ECB endeavored to reconstruct "the group ethic" in the wake of a 5-0 Ashes whitewash against Australia.
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