Four North Koreans charged in embezzlement scheme
The feds have a big warning after they say foreign agents infiltrated one Atlanta business and stole hundreds of thousands. Agents in the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office announced the indictments of four North Korean men just a little while ago. Now, we’re hearing from one of the alleged victims.
ATLANTA – Federal prosecutors have charged four North Korean nationals in a cryptocurrency embezzlement scheme that targeted companies in Georgia and Serbia, allegedly funneling more than $900,000 in stolen digital assets back to the North Korean regime to support weapons development and evade international sanctions.
A five-count indictment unsealed Monday in the Northern District of Georgia names Kim Kwang Jin, Kang Tae Bok, Jong Pong Ju, and Chang Nam Il as defendants in the case, accusing them of wire fraud and money laundering. The group allegedly posed as remote IT workers using…
