Court case
United States v. Joseph Hakan Ayik 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
- 1
- People named
- 17
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 23, 2026.
Takedowns linked to this case
1 takedown record in this index is linked to this case.
- Operation Trojan Shield . Criminal communications, October 2018
People named in this case
17 people in this index are recorded as named in this case.
- Abdelhakim Aharchaou . No alias recorded
- Alexander Dmitrienko . No alias recorded
- Aurangzeb Ayub . No alias recorded
- Baris Tukel . No alias recorded
- Domenico Catanzariti . No alias recorded
- Dragan Nikitovic . Also known as: Dr. Djek
- Edwin Harmendra Kumar . Also known as: Edwin Harmendra Valentine
- Erkan Yusef Dogan . No alias recorded
- James Thomas Flood . No alias recorded
- Joseph Hakan Ayik . No alias recorded
- Maximilian Rivkin . No alias recorded
- Miwand Zakhimi . Also known as: Maiwand Zakhimi
- Omar Malik . No alias recorded
- Osemah Elhassen . No alias recorded
- Seyyed Hossein Hosseini . No alias recorded
- Shane Geoffrey May . No alias recorded
- Shane Ngakuru . No alias recorded
Sources
8 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
- United States v. Ayik , Primary source . U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, May 28, 2021 . https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59969864/united-states-v-ayik/
- United States v. Ayik , Primary source . U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, May 28, 2021 . https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59969865/united-states-v-ayik/
- United States v. Ayik , Primary source . U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, May 28, 2021 . https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59969866/united-states-v-ayik/
- United States v. Ayik , Primary source . U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, May 28, 2021 . https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59969868/united-states-v-ayik/
- United States v. Ayik , Primary source . United States District Court for the Southern District of California, May 28, 2021 . https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59969869/united-states-v-ayik/
- Distributor of ANOM Hardened Encrypted Devices Sentenced to 63 Months in Prison for Racketeering Conspiracy , Later outcome . United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of California, November 15, 2024 . https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/distributor-anom-hardened-encrypted-devices-sentenced-63-months-prison-racketeering
- United States v. Ayik , Later outcome . United States District Court for the Southern District of California, May 28, 2021 . https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59969857/united-states-v-ayik/