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Anton Sokolin
Anton Sokolin is the data correspondent at NK News. He previously worked at Reuters, TASS and the Korea Trade Promotion Corporation (KOTRA).
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News US ‘laptop farmers’ get jail time for aiding DPRK IT workers scam local firmsTennessee and New York residents get 18 months each following yearslong collaboration that generated over $1.2 million
U.S. federal courts have imposed 18-month prison sentences on two American citizens for running laptop farms and helping North Korean information technology (IT) workers generate over $1.2 million in revenue for Pyongyang’s weapons programs. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the sentences in two separate cases involving Matthew Issac Knoot of Nashville, Tenn., and Erick Ntekereze Prince of New York on Wednesday, according to a press release. The men “received and hosted” laptops in their homes that “victim U.S. companies shipped to IT workers they had hired and who the victim companies believed were located at the defendants’ residences,” © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |