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Chonsurim IT worker Choe Song Won employed by a U.S. DeFi company

Date (as written)
October 2021
Year
2021
Actors (as written)
Chonsurim Trading Corporation IT workers (Laos; Department 53, Ministry of National Defense)
Actor pages
Chonsurim Trading Corporation IT workers
Tags (as written)
IT workers; false identities

Source entries (1)

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

Chonsurim IT worker Choe Song Won employed by a U.S. DeFi company · October 2021
(MSMT/2025/2, report p. 65) Case Study: Chonsurim (IT workers in Laos): “In October 2021, Choe Song Won, a Chonsurim IT worker, was appointed to undertake freelance work for a U.S. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) company. His employment was terminated soon thereafter due to a failure to meet project milestones.”
https://github.com/tayvano/lazarus-bluenoroff-research/blob/main/pdfs/2025-10-22_MSMT-Report.pdf

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