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The Justice Department today announced five guilty pleas and more than $15 million in civil forfeiture actions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) remote information technology (IT) work and virtual currency heist schemes. 

U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Yara Klukas met yesterday with Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and senior members of her administration to discuss shared public-safety priorities and opportunities for deeper collaboration between the County and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Three men have been sentenced to decades in federal prison for their roles in a violent alien smuggling and kidnapping conspiracy that operated between Cuba, South Florida, and Louisiana.

A Romanian national illegally present in the U.S. pleaded guilty in Miami federal court on Oct. 20 to participating in a concealment money laundering scheme operating out of South Florida.

A federal jury in Miami convicted a Malaysian national on Oct. 23 for abusive sexual contact of a minor aboard a cruise ship sailing in international waters. 

The Justice Department today announced five guilty pleas and more than $15 million in civil forfeiture actions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) remote information technology (IT) work and virtual currency heist schemes. The DPRK government uses both types of schemes to fund its weapons and other priorities in violation of sanctions.