Dilshod Sidikov, a New York resident, was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison and to pay fines of more than $1.5 million for his role in a wire fraud scheme that cost trucking companies more than $1.7 million. Using illegally obtained account numbers, Sidikov and the other fraudsters posed as truck drivers in order to dupe the system.
The scheme was carried out in truck stops mostly in and around Northern Ohio. They would use stolen account numbers and codes to get checks from electronic fund processing companies like Fleet One, Comdata and others. Once the checks had been issued, they would endorse and then cash them. The whole thing happened right there at the truck stop.
From February 2011 through November of 2012, the ring stole more than $1.7 million dollars from mostly small independent trucking companies. The money was then laundered overseas before bringing it back to the United States.
Twenty six other people have been found guilty of various crimes relating to the fraud scheme, but there are an unknown amount of other individuals who escaped detection by authorities.
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Source: wkyc, truckinginfo
I hope they catch them all.