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 pretenses, representations, and promises, transmit and cause to be transmitted, by means of wire communications in interstate and foreign commerce, writings, signs, signals, pictures, and sounds, for the purposes of executing such scheme and artiﬁce, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343; and b. to knowingly execute and attempt to execute a scheme and artiﬁce to defraud a federally insured ﬁnancial institution, and to obtain monies, ﬁmds, credits, assets, securities and other property from said ﬁnancial institution by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations. and promises, all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section I344. ' t o t e s i c 88. The conspiracy had as its object the opening of accounts under false names at US. ﬁnancial institutions and a digital payments company in order to receive and send money into and out of the United States to support the ORGANIZATIONS operations in the United States and for self- enrichment. Manner and Means of the Consniggx 89. Beginning in at least 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used, without lawful authority, the social security numbers, home addresses, and birth dates of real U.S. persons without their knowledge or consent. Using these means of stolen identiﬁcation, Defendants and their co- conspirators opened accounts at a federally insured US. ﬁnancial institution (“Bank 1”), including

the following accounts:

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