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Feds charge CEO of Alexandria forensics firm with hiding Russian ownership from U.S. agencies

Prosecutors say Oxygen Forensics, headquartered on North Washington Street, was controlled by five Russian nationals and its software written in Russia while it sold to Homeland Security and the Pentagon

,   and  Ryan Belmore
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U.S. Department of Justice (Douglas Rissing/Getty Images)

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The chief executive of an Alexandria-based digital forensics company has been arrested on a federal charge accusing him of concealing from U.S. government agencies that the firm was owned and controlled by Russian nationals and that its software was developed in Russia.

Lee Reiber, 55, of Boise, Idaho, the CEO of Oxygen Forensics Inc., was arrested Sunday in Idaho, made an initial appearance Tuesday in federal court there and was released on bond, the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California announced Wednesday. He is expected to be arraigned in Los Angeles in the coming weeks.

Oleg Sergeyevich Davydov, 52, of Moscow, was arrested the same day at London Heathrow Airport before boarding a flight to Istanbul. The United States expects to seek his extradition.

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