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An Erizona woman has moved to jail for about a decade after ending the scam with a fraudulent foreign activist who benefited the North Korean government.
50 -year -old Christina Mary Chapman was sentenced to 102 months in a federal lockup for a detailed plan, which included North Korean residents helping American citizens and helping them in remote IT jobs in 309 American companies, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The identity of 68 Americans was stolen in this process.
Chapman’s scam produced over $ 17 million for himself and North Korea’s government and ended from 2020 to 2023.
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A picture taken by investigators shows the laptop shelves in Christina Chapman’s house. (Department of Justice)
Next to the operation, Chapman hosted and hosted laptops to companies in his home, which he cheated, including a Fortune 500 company, a major TV network, a silicon valley tech company and others.
Those companies believed that they had hired Americans whose identity was stolen by Chapman. Instead, the activists were North Koreans who prevented from working in America
According to DOJ, Chapman sent 49 equipment to a Chinese city, which is the border of North Korea. In 2023, more than 90 laptops were recovered from his house on the execution of a search warrant.
He requested to plot to plot wire fraud, increased identity and plunder monetary equipment in February. With a prison sentence, it is necessary to pay $ 284,556, which was to be paid to the North Korean people and decided to $ 176,850.
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A shelf of a laptop at Christina Chapman’s house. (Department of Justice)
American Attorney Genin Ferris Piro said, “North Korea is not only a threat to the homeland from a distance. It is an enemy. It is a fraud on American citizens, American companies and American banks. It is a threat to the main road in every sense of the word,” said the Attorney Genin Ferris Piro.
“North Korean rule has generated millions of dollars for its nuclear weapon program by suffering American citizens, businesses and financial institutions,” said FBI Assistant Director of FBI Assistant Director Roman Rosavsky.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks on 15 January 2024 at the Supreme People’s Assembly in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service through AP)
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“However, even an opponent as sophisticated as North Korean government can not succeed without the help of interested American citizens like Christina Chapman, who were sentenced for their role in a detailed plan to cheat more than 300 American companies today, helping North Korean IT workers to get virtual employment and launch money earned by them.”
