Russian-owned firm secretly sold spy-linked software to the US Secret Service, federal prosecutors charge

From the Newshound archive · first published 24 September 2026.

Lee Reiber, 55, chief executive of Virginia-based Oxygen Forensics, was arrested in Idaho on September 22 after prosecutors alleged he had spent years deceiving the US government about his company's Russian ownership and origins. The firm was in fact controlled by five Russian nationals, including Oleg Davydov, 52, who was arrested at Heathrow Airport two days earlier and faces extradition to the United States. The Secret Service signed a five-year contract with Oxygen Forensics in 2024 to supply data-extraction software used to recover and analyse electronic data from digital devices.

The same Russian owners also ran a Moscow company supplying software to the FSB, Russia's main intelligence agency, and other Russian law enforcement bodies.

Prosecutors say Reiber had been put on notice in a written communication in January 2024 that disclosure of the software's Russian development would cause foreign government clients to walk away — yet he kept it hidden regardless.

Authorities stressed the software contained no malicious code and was not used to access any Secret Service systems or data.