The U.S. has indicted two North Korean nationals and three co-conspirators for helping generate over $866,000 in support of Pyongyang’s nuclear program, by allegedly deceiving U.S. companies into hiring remote information technology (IT) workers.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida brought forward multiple charges against the DPRK IT professionals Jin Sung Il and Pak Jin Song, along with Mexican national Pedro Alonso De Los Reyes and U.S. nationals Erick Ntekereze Prince and Emanuel Ashtor, for the scheme that operated from April 2018 to Aug. 2024, the Justice Department said in a press release.