The US Justice Department announced one arrest and charges against nine more people in connection with an alleged scheme in which North Koreans posed as American tech workers to gain lucrative jobs and fund the country’s government.
Zhenxing “Danny” Wang was arrested for his alleged role in a multi-year fraud scheme to obtain remote IT work that gained more than US$5 million in revenue, according to the indictment.
Thousands of North Korean workers have spent the past few years posing as nationals from other countries while infiltrating companies in the US and around the world in lucrative technical jobs, according to the US government.
Such schemes are meant to help the North Korean government gather intelligence and generate money for the country’s military, while some IT workers also build their own personal wealth, according to US officials and security experts.
