Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) report, 22 Oct 2025
Japan case 5: individuals assisting North Korean IT workers · 2025
(MSMT/2025/2, report p. 90) “Japan has investigated several cases involving individuals assisting North Korean IT workers in Japan, including: Case 5 (2025): Suspects provided their driver’s license data, account information, etc. to a North Korean IT worker so that this individual could create a false account with a crowdsourcing company. The North Korean IT worker received work orders on an account in the names of the suspects. It was found that the suspects received approximately 10 percent of the payments transferred to their own account as a commission and transferred the rest to an overseas account.” (yen-dollar conversions are the report’s own, footnote 288: “Calculated at $1 = 140 JPY”)