Phone-hacking company that won U.S. security agency contracts hid Russian ownership, DOJ alleges
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Law enforcement has arrested two leaders of a Russian-owned phone hacking company used by Kremlin agencies who allegedly masked its foreign ownership from the U. S. Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security and others to win millions of dollars worth of contracts, the Justice Department announced Wednesday .
Lee Reiber of Boise, Idaho, the CEO of Oxygen Forensics (Oxygen US), was arrested in his home state and Oleg Davydov, one of five Russian nationals whom DOJ said actually controlled the company, was arrested in London, from where the department plans to seek his extradition. They face charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Publicly, Oxygen went to great lengths to present Reiber as the true leader of a company based in Alexandria, Va. , asserting that the company was not controlled by Russian-based executives, according to a criminal complaint.