Christina Mary Chapman, a 50 -year -old woman from Erizona, was sentenced to 102 -month prison, convicted for her participation in the plan to infiltrate North Korean IT workers into 309 American companies.
Chapman was accused in May 2024 with Ukrainian citizen Olecusandra Didenko, identity theft, conspiracy to cheat the United States, and money laundering, wire fraud, identity fraud and conspiracy with bank fraud.
Didenko too An online platform is run which is known as upworksal (Who was it Seized By DOJ) who provide services allowing North Korean people to use false identity while hunting for remote IT work status.
Three other foreign nationals, only their surnames (Jiho Han, Haran Joo, and Chunaji Jin) and part of the same criminal group, were also accused of plotting money laundering.
As Court documentChapman hosted the North Korean IT Workers Computer in his home in October 2020 and October 2023, which produced a so -called “laptop farm”, which was used to reveal as such as equipment was located in the United States.
The North Korean people were hired as remote software and application developers with several Fortune 500 companies, including an aerospace and defense company, a major television network, a silicon valley technology company and a high-profile company.
As a result of the scheme, he collected more than $ 17 million in illegal revenue paid for his work, which was shared with Chapman, who processed his salary through his financial accounts.
“Chapman operated a ‘laptop farm’, where he obtained and hosted computers from American companies to believe that companies were in the United States,” the Department of Justice was in the United States. Said On Thursday.
“Chapman also sent 49 laptops and other equipment supplied by American companies, including several shipments to a city in China along the border with North Korea. More than 90 laptops were seized from Chapman’s house after execution of a search warrant in October 2023.”
On Thursday, Treasury’s US Department Office Foreign Property Control (OFAC) also Accepted A North Korean front company and three affiliated persons who were associated with fraud information technology (IT) activist schemes.
In recent weeks, the Department of Justice disrupted a broad network of individuals who helped North Korean workers get distance jobs in American companies, while FBI Updated its guidance For businesses for us.
First, the United States released many Joint Counseling Foreign partners warned of North Korean IT activists schemes and approved several organizations involved in North Korea’s IT worker revenue production schemes.
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