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Two North Korean Nationals and Three Facilitators Indicted for Multi-Year Fraudulent Remote Information Technology Worker Scheme that Generated Revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Date (as written)
2025-01-23 (press release date)
Year
2025
Tags (as written)
DOJ press release

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US Department of Justice press releases

Two North Korean Nationals and Three Facilitators Indicted for Multi-Year Fraudulent Remote Information Technology Worker Scheme that Generated Revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea · 2025-01-23 (press release date)
The Justice Department today announced the indictment of North Korean nationals Jin Sung-Il (진성일) and Pak Jin-Song (박진성), Mexican national Pedro Ernesto Alonso De Los Reyes, and U.S. nationals Erick Ntekereze Prince and Emanuel Ashtor for a fraudulent scheme to obtain remote information technology (IT) work with U.S. companies that generated revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea).
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-north-korean-nationals-and-three-facilitators-indicted-multi-year-fraudulent-remote

Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) report, 22 Oct 2025

Multi-year fraudulent remote IT work scheme (Jin Sung-Il, Pak Jin-Song and facilitators) · January 2025 (indictment)
(MSMT/2025/2, report p. 74 (fn 220)) Footnote 220: “In January 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of North Korean nationals Jin Sung-Il (진성일) and Pak Jin-Song (박진성) residing in China, Mexican national Pedro Ernesto Alonso de Los Reyes, and U.S. nationals Erick Ntekereze Prince and Emanuel Ashtor for a fraudulent scheme to obtain remote IT work with U.S. companies that generated revenue for the DPRK”
https://github.com/tayvano/lazarus-bluenoroff-research/blob/main/pdfs/2025-10-22_MSMT-Report.pdf

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