The Amazon Prime logo is displayed on Amazon, truck delivery in Richmond, California, June 21, 2023.
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Officials of the Department of Justice on Tuesday accused Members or a collaborators of an Armenian organized crime ring with theft of loads worth over $ 83 million Amazon Pretending as legal truck drivers and pushes out goods intended for the company's warehouses.
From at least 2021 GE Icemakers to Sharkninja The state claimed that vacuum and air -frits.
“Currently, Amazon is harassed by repeating the theft of its shipments, which are widely referred to as” theft of loads, “says the complaint.
Amazon has increased his efforts to track and close unfairdeceptive and illegal actions in a vast online store. Eliminating stolen goods is particularly difficult. CNBC announced in 2023 that Amazon Suspended dozens of third -party sellers He claimed that they were selling stolen goods, although many of these sellers claimed that they were unknowingly caught in the program, exposing their companies to survival.
Amazon is not the only retailer affected by the theft of loads. Experts said CNBC Losses related to the theft of cargo are estimated at almost $ 1 billion or more a year.
In his complaint, the alleged fraudsters conducted four transport carriers – AK Transport, NBA Holdings, Belman Transport and Markos Transportation – which would obtain contracted freight routes from Amazon Relay, a conclusion used by truck drivers to get work, also called loads.
Each truck is assigned a load to be picked up from the manufacturer's warehouse, which is to be blown up in the Amazon facility. Instead, the group turned away from designated routes, removed some of the goods from trucks and sold them or gave them to colleagues, prosecutors say.
In some cases, “self -proclaimed carriers” would finish delivery in Amazon a few days after expecting that they would appear as complained.
Officials took the alleged iPhones of fraudsters and found photos and videos with magazines lined with Crockpots, Keurig coffee machines, keratin shampoo, Weber grill and other goods.
Amazon teams collaborated with Dij officials in investigation, including sharing information about stolen goods and detailed information on alleged fraudsters on the online market.
Amazon representatives did not answer immediately at the request for comment.
Officials linked the accused with a litany of other alleged crimes, including attempts to murder, kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms and health care fraud. It is expected that several of 13 accused will appear in the District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday and Wednesday, while one of the accused appeared on Tuesday in court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and was detained.
