Indictments
Furthermore, the two indictments issued by the US District Court of Massachusetts said, “In order to circumvent controls that targeted US and global companies have designed and implemented to prevent the hiring of illicit IT workers and to otherwise prevent unauthorized access and damage to the companies’ computer networks, the overseas IT workers obtained assistance from persons residing in the United States.”
The US facilitators, the indictments said, “received and hosted multiple laptop computers and other hardware issued by US victim companies at their residences in the US,” and set up remote access on them, unbeknownst to the employers, so the illicit workers could do their jobs. They also set up US bank accounts and established ways to transfer the funds to the workers and their overseas co-conspirators.
Arrested was US national Zhenxing “Danny” Wang of New Jersey, who was indicted on five counts: conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit identity theft, and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The indictment also named six Chinese and two Taiwanese nationals for their roles in the scheme, which it said generated more than $5 million in revenue.
