Ministry of Justice officials on Tuesday Charged Members or partners of the Armenian organizing crime episode steal more than $ 83 million of goods from Amazon By demonstrating as legitimate truck drivers and commodities designated for the company’s warehouses.
At least 2021, at least four people associated with the crime ring have carried out a plan throughout California to steal truck cargo loads, starting with smart TVs and GE Snow makers to Sharkninja The voids and the air, the Ministry of Justice claimed.
“At present, the Amazon suffers from the frequent thefts of its shipments, which are usually referred to as” theft of goods, “says the complaint.
Amazon intensified its efforts to track and close FraudulentDeceptive and illegal activities in its sprawling store on the Internet. Eliminate stolen goods is especially difficult. CNBC mentioned in 2023 that the Amazon Dozens of third -party merchants were suspended He claimed that she was selling stolen goods, although many of these sellers claimed that they fell into the plan without knowing this plan, which exposes their work to the risk of survival.
Amazon is not the only retail seller who suffers from charging theft. CNBC experts said The losses related to theft of goods are estimated at about one billion dollars or more per year.
In its complaint, the Ministry of Justice said that the alleged fraudsters run four transport companies – AK Transportation, NBA Holdings, Belman Transport and Markos Transportation – which will obtain contracting methods from Amazon Relay, an application used by truck drivers to obtain work, is also referred to as loads.
Each tonnage truck is appointed to receive from the manufacturer’s warehouse to be dropped at the Amazon facility. Instead, the groups will transform from their custom methods, take part of the goods from trucks and resell them to colleagues, as the prosecutors claim.
In some cases, the “self -designed transport companies” will complete their delivery operations in an Amazon warehouse several days after they appear, according to the complaint.
The Ministry of Justice officials seized the alleged iPhone devices from the fraudsters and found pictures and videos of warehouses lined with CROCKPots boxes, Keurig coffee machines, keratin shampoo, Weber and other commodities.
Amazon teams cooperated with Ministry of Justice officials in the investigation, including sharing information about stolen goods, and the details of the alleged fraudsters’ accounts in its online market.
A Amazon spokesman said in a statement that the company has “tolerance of zero” to steal goods and other forms of retail crimes. Amazon depends on a combination of interior difference and techniques to prevent ORC. The company also referred “thousands” of bad actors at ORC to law enforcement officials.
“These referrals resulted in the arrests and injuries of product and recovery, and the dismantling of the Orc networks in the United States and around the world,” they said in a statement.
The officials of the Ministry of Justice have linked the defendants to a series of other alleged crimes, including attempt to kill and kidnap, possess illegal firearms and defraud health care. It is expected that many of the 13 defendants in the Los Angeles County Court will appear on Tuesday and Wednesday, while one of the defendants appeared in a court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Tuesday and was arrested.
