Zohar Pinhasi and MonsterCloud: documents and source map

16 October 2026

An indictment has been filed in the United States. Pinhasi pleaded not guilty, according to reporting on the hearing. The allegations below have not been proved, and he is presumed innocent.

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Original indictment (PDF, English)

Indictment (PDF)
Original indictment, document 1, filed on 23 September 2026. Ten indictment pages plus an information sheet. Pages 2 and 3: defendant and representations; 4 and 5: decryption demonstrations and contracts; 5 to 7: amounts; 7 to 10: charges and conditional forfeiture. All ten indictment pages were visually examined. This is the prosecution's pleading, not a verdict.
US Attorney, EDNY
US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York statement of 7 October 2026. Confirms the filing date, arraignment, case number and summary of allegations. It is not a source independent of the prosecution.
US Department of Justice
US Justice Department statement of 7 October 2026. Lists the three counts, amounts and statutory maximum for each count. No sentence has been imposed by this statement.
BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer report of 7 October 2026. Secondary source for the not guilty plea and bond, expressly attributed to the US Attorney's Office. Notes the publication's unanswered request to defence counsel in the version reviewed. The original hearing record was not examined.

Scope of the review

Review date: 16 October 2026. The original document was preserved unchanged. The full docket, investigation materials, payment records and clients' files were not examined. US legal terms are translated for explanation. The overview describes a period ending in June 2023, while an example in paragraph 15 is dated August 2023; this discrepancy was not resolved in this review. This website did not request comment. Content and translations were prepared with AI assistance.

This article and its translations were prepared with AI assistance. The full ten-page indictment, accompanied by an information sheet, was visually examined, and prosecution statements and BleepingComputer reporting were read. Investigation materials and the full court docket were not reviewed, and no direct responses were obtained.