Co-located North Korean IT worker team (traveled to the United Arab Emirates) stealing and laundering virtual currency from victim companies

Date (as written): in or about December 2020 until in or about April 2022
Year: 2020
Country: United Arab Emirates (where team was located)
Actors (as written): KIM KWANG JIN; KANG TAE BOK; JONG PONG JU; CHANG NAM IL
Actor pages: KIM KWANG JIN KANG TAE BOK JONG PONG JU CHANG NAM IL
Tags (as written): IT workers; crypto theft; laundering; indictment
Dollar figures (as written): more than $900,000; $900,000

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US court filing via CourtListener RECAP: United States v. Jin

Co-located North Korean IT worker team (traveled to the United Arab Emirates) stealing and laundering virtual currency from victim companies · in or about December 2020 until in or about April 2022

During the schemes, the defendants worked on victim companies' virtual currency smart contracts and collectively stole and laundered virtual currency from victim companies valued at more than $900,000 at the time of the thefts. [Case No. 1:25-cr-00291, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia; filing: INDICTMENT with FORFEITURE PROVISION as to Kim Kwang Jin]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.345736/gov.uscourts.gand.345736.1.0.pdf

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