San Francisco (AP) – A former food delivery driver pleaded guilty to the conspiracy with others to steal more than $ 2.5 million in Doordash by forcing the company to pay deliveries that have never taken place, said federal prosecutors.
Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri pleaded guilty on Tuesday before the Federal Court of San Jose to a single chief of conspiracy to commit fraud by wire, said the office of the American prosecutor.
Devagiri, 30, from Newport Beach, California, admitted having worked with three others in 2020 and 2021 to defraud the delivery company based in San Francisco, said federal prosecutors.
The prosecutors said that Devagiri used customer accounts to place high -value orders, and then used an employee identification information to access Doordash software and manually reallocate orders to driver accounts that it and others checked. He then reported the fraudulent driver’s accounts that the orders had been delivered when they did not do so and manipulated the IT systems of Doordash to pay for fraudulent driver accounts for non -existent deliveries, officials said.
Devagiri would then use Doordash software to change the orders of the status “delivered” to the “in progress” status and manually reassign orders to the driver’s accounts that he and others controlled, recommenceing the process, prosecutors said.
Devagiri is the third defendant to be found guilty of his role in this conspiracy. Two co-accused had previously pleaded guilty to a conspiracy leader in order to commit fraud by wire, the authorities announced.
Devagiri risks a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $ 250,000. He should return to court on September 16, 2025.
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