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- Status
- Wanted
- Agency
- FBI
- Notice
- FBI Wanted
- Issued
- 2024
- Nationality
- Iranian
- Checked
Yasar Balaghi
The FBI lists Yasar Balaghi, an Iranian national, on its Wanted list (notice published in 2024). The notice links Balaghi to charges that include terrorism, cybercrime, fraud and robbery or theft. The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on these individuals.
He is described as having brown eyes and black hair. Born on 19 September 1988 in Tehran, Iran, he would now be 38.
- Terrorism
- Cybercrime
- Fraud or forgery
- Robbery, theft or burglary
Charges, as published
- Conspiracy to Obtain Information from a Protected Computer
- Defraud and Obtain a Thing of Value
- Commit Fraud Involving Authentication Features
- Commit Aggravated Identity Theft
- Commit Access Device Fraud
- Commit Wire Fraud While Falsely Registering Domains
- Wire Fraud
- Aggravated Identify Theft
- Aiding and Abetting
- Material Support to Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization
Reward
The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on these individuals.
Case details, as published by FBI
Yasar Balaghi, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, and Masoud Jalili are wanted for their alleged participation in malicious cyber activity associated with advanced persistent threat (APT) actors affiliated with the Iranian Government’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The alleged IRGC cyber activity targeted various individuals associated with the 2024 United States Presidential Campaigns, as well as personnel with a nexus to Iranian and Middle Eastern affairs, such as current or former senior government officials, senior think tank personnel, journalists, activists, and lobbyists from 2019 to present day. Federal arrest warrants were issued for each of the men in the United States District Court, District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., on September 27, 2024, after they were charged with multiple cyber-related crimes.
About this notice
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