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](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/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](https://takedownindex.org/people/abdelhakim-aharchaou). No alias recorded - [Alexander Dmitrienko](https://takedownindex.org/people/alexander-dmitrienko). No alias recorded - [Aurangzeb Ayub](https://takedownindex.org/people/aurangzeb-ayub). No alias recorded - [Baris Tukel](https://takedownindex.org/people/baris-tukel). No alias recorded - [Domenico Catanzariti](https://takedownindex.org/people/domenico-catanzariti). No alias recorded - [Dragan Nikitovic](https://takedownindex.org/people/dragan-nikitovic). Also known as: Dr. Djek - [Edwin Harmendra Kumar](https://takedownindex.org/people/edwin-harmendra-kumar). Also known as: Edwin Harmendra Valentine - [Erkan Yusef Dogan](https://takedownindex.org/people/erkan-yusef-dogan). No alias recorded - [James Thomas Flood](https://takedownindex.org/people/james-thomas-flood). No alias recorded - [Joseph Hakan Ayik](https://takedownindex.org/people/joseph-hakan-ayik). No alias recorded - [Maximilian Rivkin](https://takedownindex.org/people/maximilian-rivkin). No alias recorded - [Miwand Zakhimi](https://takedownindex.org/people/miwand-zakhimi). Also known as: Maiwand Zakhimi - [Omar Malik](https://takedownindex.org/people/omar-malik). No alias recorded - [Osemah Elhassen](https://takedownindex.org/people/osemah-elhassen). No alias recorded - [Seyyed Hossein Hosseini](https://takedownindex.org/people/seyyed-hossein-hosseini). No alias recorded - [Shane Geoffrey May](https://takedownindex.org/people/shane-geoffrey-may). No alias recorded - [Shane Ngakuru](https://takedownindex.org/people/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](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) - [United States v. Ayik](https://takedownindex.org/sources/u-s-district-court-for-the-southern-district-of-california-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/](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59969864/united-states-v-ayik/) - [United States v. Ayik](https://takedownindex.org/sources/u-s-district-court-for-the-southern-district-of-california-united-states-v-ayi-2), 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/](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59969865/united-states-v-ayik/) - [United States v. Ayik](https://takedownindex.org/sources/u-s-district-court-for-the-southern-district-of-california-united-states-v-ayi-3), 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/](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59969866/united-states-v-ayik/) - [United States v. Ayik](https://takedownindex.org/sources/u-s-district-court-for-the-southern-district-of-california-united-states-v-ayi-4), 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/](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59969868/united-states-v-ayik/) - [United States v. Ayik](https://takedownindex.org/sources/united-states-district-court-for-the-southern-district-of-california-united-stat), 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/](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](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, November 15, 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) - [United States v. Ayik](https://takedownindex.org/sources/united-states-district-court-for-the-southern-district-of-california-united-st-2), 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/](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59969857/united-states-v-ayik/) [All court cases](https://takedownindex.org/cases)