Three people allegedly used artificial intelligence to impersonate corporate executives and attorneys, persuading employees at thousands of companies worldwide to authorize transfers totaling about $129 million, prosecutors said. Jacob Soall, Sharon Hazan and Guy Sheetrit face wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and money-laundering charges in New York. The indictment says the scheme operated from July 2024 through February 2026 and involved emails posing as chief executives, followed by AI-generated voice or image impersonations during calls and purported instructions from lawyers. The defendants targeted accounting departments at organizations including hospital systems, a Rhode Island bank, a U.K. financial technology company, a Massachusetts mutual fund and a Florida pet-food company. Prosecutors say the stolen funds were converted into cryptocurrency to obscure their origin before being distributed among the defendants and others. The three were arrested in Europe between June and September and are awaiting extradition to the United States. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years, except aggravated identity theft, which carries two years.