North Korea says North Korea deceiving American companies in the technology colleagues program to finance the arms program

The Ministry of Justice announced criminal charges on Monday in a plan by North Korea to finance the weapons program through the salaries of information technology workers about a distance that American companies employ unintentionally.

The charges arose from what the law enforcement officials described as a country operation that also resulted in the seizure of financial accounts, websites and laptops that were used to implement fraud.

Separate cases in Georgia and Massachusetts It is the latest effort for the Ministry of Justice to face a constant threat that officials say it generates huge revenues for the North Korean government, and in some cases workers allow access to sensitive and ownership data from American companies that employ them.

The scheme included thousands of workers who, armed with stolen or fake identities, were sent by the North Korean government to find work as remote employees in American companies, including Fortune 500. Prosecutors said that companies were deceived by the belief that the workers who rented them were their headquarters in the United States when many were already stationed in North Korea or China, and the wages that were transported by companies The victim, which prompted the accounts controlled by the conspirators participating in North Korea.

On Monday, American prosecutors announced our national arrest “Danny” Wang from New Jersey. A Film accusation regulations The “multi -year fraud scheme by Wang and its consumer coach describes a remote work with American companies that have achieved more than $ 5 million of revenue,” the Ministry of Justice He said.

The indictment also receives six Chinese citizens and two Taiwanese citizens for their roles in the plan.

“These plans are targeting and stealing from American companies, and they are designed to evade sanctions and financing the illegal programs of the North Korean regime, including their weapons programs,” Prosecutor John Eisenberg, head of the National Security Department of the Ministry of Justice, He said in a statement.

In one of the cases that were exposed to Monday in the Federal Court of Massachusetts, the Ministry of Justice said it had arrested one American citizen and accused more than half of the Chinese and Taiwanese citizens of their alleged roles in a complex fraud. Prosecutors say that the production of several million dollars in revenue and the grades of companies were affected.

The conspiracy, according to court papers, included recording financial accounts to receive revenues and create paralysis companies and fake web sites to make them look like workers from a dimension related to legitimate companies. Factors within the United States facilitated the computer’s distance from workers, and to deceive companies to believe that workers were logging in from the United States sites.

The Ministry of Justice did not specify the companies that were deceived, but said that some fraudulent workers were able to access and steal information related to sensitive military technology.

The case in Georgia is charged with four information technology workers in North Korea, stealing a virtual currency of hundreds of thousands of dollars from their employers. The defendants remain free.

The Ministry of Justice has submitted similar trials in recent years, as well as established an initiative aimed at disrupting the threat.

The Ministry of Justice has accused other people living in the United States with similar behavior linked to the North Korean government.

Last December, a Chinese citizen lives in California Accused After claiming that he bought and exported weapons and ammunition to North Korea towards North Korea agents who directed $ 2 million to buy equipment.

In May 2024, Federal Prosecutors accused A woman from Arizona is implementing a plan to help North Korea IT workers obtain a work with illegal American companies. It was claimed that the group used the identities of more than 60 people living in the United States to generate approximately $ 7 million to the North Korean government from more than 300 American companies.