Head of Money Mule Operation Extradited to the United States

A Ukrainian man accused of being the head of a money laundering and fraud operation was extradited to the United States after being arrested in South Korea, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

The man, Aleksandr Musienko, aka “Oleksandr Serhiyovych Musiyenko,” “Robert Davis,” and “Ply,” conducted the illicit operation from 2009 through at least 2012, the DoJ indictment claims. The international money laundering and fraud scheme targeted U.S. corporations and individuals.

According to the indictment, Musienko worked with overseas cybercriminals who had hacked and stolen money from the online bank accounts of numerous individual and corporate victims in the United States. Musienko established a network of “money mules” throughout the United States, using aliases such as “Robert Davis” and phony front companies that included “Vita Finance AG” and “Hilpert AG.”