The Justice Department announced on 24 September that Lee Reiber, chief executive of Oxygen Forensics (Oxygen US), and Oleg Davydov, one of five Russian nationals DOJ says actually controlled the company, were arrested — Reiber in Idaho, Davydov in London, where extradition will be sought. Both face conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The complaint alleges Oxygen presented itself as US-owned and Virginia-based while Russian shareholders retained decision-making authority, including after US sanctions expanded in 2022 prompted the company to install Reiber as chief executive and remove the owners from public corporate filings. Since March 2022 Oxygen sold forensics software to the US Secret Service, Homeland Security Investigations, the DHS inspector general and the Department of Defense, winning more than US$2 million in contracts and purchases from the Secret Service and its National Computer Forensics Institute; the complaint says Reiber affirmed US ownership to the NCFI as recently as February 2026.

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