India, June 6 -- The U.S. authorities have busted a North Korean Official's efforts to generate revenue for North Korea and its weapons program through illegal information technology worker schemes and cryptocurrency theft.
The Department of Justice said it filed a civil forfeiture complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that North Korean IT workers obtained illegal employment and amassed millions in cryptocurrency for the benefit of the North Korean government, as a means of evading U.S. sanctions placed on North Korea.
The funds were initially restrained in connection with an April 2023 indictment against Sim Hyon Sop, a North Korean Foreign Trade Bank representative who was allegedly conspiring with t...