Oxygen Forensics, A Russian-run forensics firm spent a decade inside European police departments
DOJ charged Oxygen Forensics leaders for hiding Russian ownership while selling forensic tools to US and European agencies.
The US Justice Department charged Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Reiber and Russian co-founder Oleg Davydov with concealing that Russian nationals owned the company and that its software was developed in Russia while selling forensic tools to the Pentagon, Secret Service, and other US agencies. Politico reports Oxygen was consulted on the EU-funded EVIDENCE and INSPECTr digital-evidence projects, and police in Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Latvia bought or accredited its products. The same five owners allegedly controlled Russia's MKO Systems, which sold the technology to the FSB and Interior Ministry. Romania's National Anticorruption Directorate said it will stop using the products.