Nine people were indicted in Boston in connection with a scheme that raised $5 million to go towards North Korea and its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program, United States Attorney Leah Foley’s office said Monday.
Jing Bin Huang, Baoyu Zhou, Tong Yuze, Yongzhe Xu, Ziyou Yuan, Zhenbang Zhou, all of China; Zhenxing “Danny” Wang, of New Jersey; Mengting Liu and Enchia Liu of Taiwan were indicted Foley’s office said in a statement. Zhenxing Wang was arrested in New Jersey earlier on Monday and will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date.
The indictments follow a multi-year investigation by federal law enforcement agencies and as part of the Department of Justice’s initiative “DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea]: Domestic Enabler,” Foley’s office said. The initiative looks into disrupting operations that target North Korea’s “illicit revenue generation efforts through remote IT workers, and the U.S.-based individuals who enable them…