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# Organizations and roles

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The public record puts 2 organizations on this action. Operational lead: FBI. The table lists the role the cited record assigns each one, in the record's own wording where it gives any.

## Why this page names organizations only

Roles on this page describe the agencies that took part. Individuals named in the public record appear on the takedown entry itself, under People and accountability.

## Organizations and roles

| Emblem | Organization | Role | What the record says |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | [Federal Bureau of Investigation](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/federal-bureau-of-investigation), United States | Operational lead | Led the US side of the international operation. |
| | [United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/united-states-attorney-s-office-for-the-western-district-of-pennsylvania), United States | Prosecuting | Prosecuted US-based defendants. |

## Accountability

### Legal authority

Federal criminal process (W.D. Pa.); coordinated international arrest warrants.

### Oversight

The record assigns prosecuting or judicial roles to USAO-WDPA.

### Ongoing investigation

Group accounted for: Partial. Roughly two dozen defendants were charged across multiple countries; the broader membership was not fully accounted for.

This page records organizational involvement as the cited sources state it. Where a role carries no description, the record gives none.

Last reviewed August 21, 2026