The FBI released a wanted poster Thursday after 14 North Koreans were indicted for fraud and theft against U.S. companies and nonprofits, according to an FBI news release.
The bounty? $5 million.
It’s a small sum compared to the $88 million the alleged criminals stole during their six-year conspiracy.
The 14 conspirators were nationals of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea posing as American information technology workers.
They worked for the DPRK-controlled companies Yanbian Silverstar and Volasys Silverstar, which are located in China and Russia, respectively.
The IT workers would steal American identities in order to obtain remote employment from U.S. companies.
The Department of Justice has accused 14 North Korean nationals of conspiring to use false identities to get IT jobs with U.S. companies and siphon money back to their home country, in violation of US, Yid Info reported. pic.twitter.com/mX9nSsRowi
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Some of the workers had orders to earn at least $10,000 per month.
To pad their incomes more, they would also resort to extortion.
The IT workers would steal sensitive company information and threaten to leak it unless the employer agreed to make an extortion payment.
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