“These schemes target and steal from U.S. companies and are designed to evade sanctions and fund the North Korean regime’s illicit programs, including its weapons programs,” Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg, the head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, said in a statement.

The scheme netted more than $5 million for weapons of mass destruction programs run by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Leah B. Foley, US Attorney for Massachusetts, said in a statement Monday.