"Tech CEO, Russian National Arrested on Complaint Alleging They Hid Russian Ownership and Development of Software Sold to U.S. Government" 23 September 2026

The CEO of a Virginia-based software company and a Russian national have been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging them with concealing from U.S. government agencies that their company was owned and controlled by Russian nationals and that its software was developed in Russia, the Justice Department announced today...

...The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud...

...According to an affidavit filed with the criminal complaint, from March 2022 to the present, Reiber, Davydov, and others conspired to obtain contracts from federal agencies through Oxygen Forensics Inc., a digital forensics company based in Alexandria, Virginia...

...According to the affidavit, Oxygen Forensics held itself out to the U.S. government as being an independent, U.S.-based company. In fact, Davydov and four other Russian nationals owned and controlled the company through a holding company based in Cyprus...

...A criminal complaint merely contains allegations. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

If convicted, each defendant would face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison...

For more information about allegations of Oxygen Forensics facilitating human rights harms, click here.

According to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project: "OCCRP sent requests for comment to Oxygen Forensics, including its sales and support contacts, and to MKO Systems, asking that the request be forwarded to Davydov and his legal representatives. OCCRP also contacted the HM Courts and Tribunals Service press office and U.S. Justice Department spokesperson Ciaran McEvoy seeking contact information for the defendants' lawyers. At the time of publication, no responses had been received."