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Matthew Isaac Knoot, a Nashville resident, faces charges for helping fund North Korea's weapons program, which involves weapons of mass destruction. The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges that Knoot helped North Korean nationals pose as US citizens to get remote jobs in US and UK tech companies, and launder the payments they received. These payments were reportedly funneled into accounts linked to North Korean and Chinese entities. Knoot allegedly set up remote desktop applications allowing North Korean workers to operate from China while appearing to be based in Nashville. For his role, Knoot received a monthly payment from a foreign facilitator named Yang Di. The DOJ highlighted that the fraudulent schemes by North Korean IT workers involved fake email, social media accounts, payment platforms, job sites, and proxy computers. These operations often involved both knowing and unknowing third parties in the US and other countries.

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