Man gets 2 years for $3.5M Amazon fraud using 23 trucking accounts
More than 1,000 Amazon Logistics assignments flowed through the operation before federal investigators unraveled a multimillion-dollar invoice scheme. The post Man gets 2 years for $3.5M Amazon fraud using 23 trucking accounts appeared first on FreightWaves .
A Connecticut man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for defrauding Amazon through its trucking network. Ameer Nasir, 25, registered 23 trucking businesses with Amazon Logistics and caused the registration of those businesses. Federal prosecutors claim his actions resulted in over $3.5 million in losses for the company.
U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley sentenced Nasir, a resident of Trumbull, Connecticut, on Wednesday in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In addition to his prison term, he is required to serve three years of supervised release and pay $3,547,090.93 in restitution. Nasir was arrested on May 8 following an FBI investigation assisted by Amazon and pleaded guilty to one wire fraud count on March 6, 2026.
The scheme ran from December 2019 through February 2021, involving over 1,000 trailer movements that never occurred.
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