According to CoinMeta, and as monitored by Chainalysis, there are on-chain connections between addresses related to the North Korean individual network sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department. OFAC lists the same Ethereum address in the lists of Boykov and Obertas. Boykov transferred approximately $9.88 million to this address, and its two other Tron addresses also transferred a total of 1.66 million USDT to an address attributed to Obertas. In addition, the Ethereum addresses of Boykov and Kim Ki Hyok have both made transfers to the same Bybit top-up address, with amounts of about $4 million and 50,000 DAI respectively. On October 28th, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against 10 individuals and 1 entity associated with the North Korean individual network of IT.