Court case
United States v. Afshin Beheshti et al. (ANOM distributor RICO case)
United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Docket 3:21-cr-01623-JLS.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- 3:21-cr-01623-JLS
- Linked takedowns
- 0
- People named
- 0
Case record
- Court
- United States District Court for the Southern District of California
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Docket number
- 3:21-cr-01623-JLS
- Status
- Seventeen defendants indicted; by 2025-02-07 all eight defendants extradited to that date had pleaded guilty. Other defendants remained abroad or unresolved in the located official sources.
- Status verified
- August 21, 2026
- Dataset id
- case_us_v_anom_distributors
The status line was checked against the public record on August 21, 2026. Proceedings may have moved since.
What this case entry is.
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A case listed here does not establish that anyone named on this page is guilty. Charges are accusations only. Where a cited source records a conviction or a guilty plea, that outcome is attributed to the source and this index asserts nothing beyond it.
Sources for this entry were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 21, 2026.
Takedowns linked to this case
No takedown record in this index is linked to this case.
People named in this case
No person in this index is recorded as named in this case.
Sources
2 sources support this entry. Each one is listed with the role it was relied on for.
- FBI's Encrypted Phone Platform Infiltrated Hundreds of Criminal Syndicates; Result is Massive Worldwide Takedown , Primary source . United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of California, June 8, 2021 . https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/fbi-s-encrypted-phone-platform-infiltrated-hundreds-criminal-syndicates-result-massive
- Distributor of Anom Hardened Encrypted Devices Sentenced to 63 Months in Prison for Racketeering , Later outcome . United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of California, January 1, 2024 . https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/distributor-anom-hardened-encrypted-devices-sentenced-63-months-prison-racketeering