Russian devs alleged to have built tools for US agencies as software from same op was sold to Moscow's security services.
The Department of Justice says Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Reiber and Russian national Oleg Sergeyevich Davydov have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud over an alleged scheme to hide the company's Russian ownership and where its software was being built.
In other words, the prosecutors are claiming that while US agencies bought Oxygen's forensic tools, software from the same Russian development operation was being supplied to some different government customers back home.
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Prosecutors allege Oxygen presented itself to Uncle Sam as an independent US company.
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Russian devs alleged to have built tools for US agencies as software from same op was sold to Moscow's security services.
US defense and homeland security agencies bought digital forensics software developed by the same Russian operation that also sold its wares to the FSB, according to US prosecutors.
The Department of Justice says Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Reiber and Russian national Oleg Sergeyevich Davydov have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud over an alleged scheme to hide the company's Russian ownership and where its software was being built.
Oxygen Forensics, based in Virginia, sold digital forensics tools to the US Department of War and several Department of Homeland Security components, including Homeland Security Investigations, the DHS Office of Inspector General, and the Secret Service's National Computer Forensics Institute.
Prosecutors allege Oxygen presented itself to Uncle Sam as an independent US company, when it was owned and controlled by five Russian nationals through a Cyprus-based holding company.
In other words, the prosecutors are claiming that while US agencies bought Oxygen's forensic tools, software from the same Russian development operation was being supplied to some different government customers back home.
As recently as March 2026, Reiber allegedly told DHS personnel that no Russian was involved in developing the software and nobody in Russia had access to its build environment.
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