US prosecutors have charged two executives of Oxygen Forensics, a Virginia-based digital forensics company, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. CEO Lee Reiber was arrested in Idaho, and chief technology officer Oleg Sergeyevich Davydov was detained in London; the US plans to seek his extradition. The Department of Justice alleges the company sold its software to US defense and homeland security agencies while hiding that it was owned and controlled by five Russian nationals and developed in Russia.
According to the DOJ, the Russian owners operated through a Cyprus-based holding company and were removed from public corporate filings after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the resulting sanctions. Reiber was installed as CEO, but prosecutors say the owners continued to make significant decisions, set his compensation, and hold signatory authority over company bank accounts. The same Russian development operation, through a separate company, sold the software under different names to Russia's FSB, Investigative Committee, and Ministry of Internal Affairs.
US customers included the Department of Defense and several Department of Homeland Security components, such as the Secret Service's National Computer Forensics Institute. Reiber allegedly made false statements to agencies as recently as March 2026, and authorities have seized about 57 domains and corporate accounts. The DOJ is not alleging that the software contained malicious code or was used to gain unauthorized access to customer data.
Both sources agree on the core allegations. The Register adds that Davydov was arrested at Heathrow before boarding a flight to Istanbul, while Recorded Future notes that Oxygen is a competitor to Cellebrite with nearly 10,000 contracts in more than 150 countries.