The Amazon Prime logo is displayed on Amazon delivery trucks in Richmond, California, June 21, 2023.
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Tuesday of the Ministry of Justice officials charge members or partners of an Armenian ring organized by crime with theft of more than $ 83 million in freight Amazon By pretending to be legitimate truck drivers and by siphoning goods for the company’s warehouses.
Since at least 2021, at least four people related to the crime ring have carried out a program in California to steal from freight trucks, ranging from smart televisions and Ge ice cubes for Sharkninja Air vacuum cleaners and fried, pretended to do.
“Currently, Amazon is prey to recurring flights from its expeditions, which is commonly called” freight flight “,” said the complaint.
Amazon has increased its efforts to follow and close fraudulent, deceptive and illegal activities on its sprawling online store. Eliminating stolen goods is particularly difficult. CNBC reported in 2023 that Amazon suspended dozens of third -party merchants who, according to him, sold stolen goods, although many of these sellers said that they had been unconsciously taken in the program, endangering their companies.
Amazon is not the only retailer afflicted by the freight flight. Experts have said that losses related to the CNBC cargo flight is estimated at nearly $ 1 billion or more per year.
In his complaint, the DoJ said that alleged fraudsters operated four transport transporters – AK Transportation, NBA Holdings, Belman Transport and Markos Transportation – which would obtain freight tracks under Amazon Relay contract, a request used by truckers to obtain work, also called charges.
Each trucker is awarded a load for the collection of the warehouse of a manufacturer to be deposited in an Amazon installation. Instead, the groups would divert from their designated routes, would take part of the goods of the trucks and resell them or offer them to the partners, according to the prosecutors.
In some cases, “self-nordlasses” would end their deliveries in an Amazon warehouse several days after their appearance, according to the complaint.
MJ officials seized the iphones of alleged fraudsters and found photos and videos of warehouses bordered by waste of simmer, Keurig coffee machines, keratin shampoo, Weber grids and other goods.
The Amazon teams cooperated with DoJ officials in their survey, in particular the sharing of information on stolen goods and the details of the accounts of alleged fraudsters on its online market.
Amazon representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
MJ officials have linked the accused to a litany of other alleged crimes, including murder, kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms and health care fraud. Several of the 13 accused should appear before a district court in Los Angeles on Tuesday and Wednesday, while one of the accused appeared before a court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Tuesday and was detained.
