<h1>Sanctions evasion through remote-worker fraud: DOJ charges defendants for using fake identities to funnel wages to a foreign weapons programme.</h1> Prosecutors allege a North Korean-run scheme used stolen or fake US identities to place remote IT workers at American companies, divert wages into co-conspirator-controlled accounts to fund illicit programmes, and employed shell companies, fake websites and domestic enablers to conceal control and facilitate access to sensitive data; law enforcement seized accounts, websites and devices and filed charges across multiple federal jurisdictions.