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. This entry records a court docket the audit located and checked: the case name, the court, the docket number where one is published, and the status the cited sources establish. It is not a summary of proceedings and it does not stand in for the docket itself. 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](https://takedownindex.org/sources/united-states-attorney-s-office-southern-district-of-california-fbi-s-encrypted-), 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](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](https://takedownindex.org/sources/united-states-attorney-s-office-southern-district-of-california-distributor-of-a), 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](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/distributor-anom-hardened-encrypted-devices-sentenced-63-months-prison-racketeering) [All court cases](https://takedownindex.org/cases)