TRUMBULL, CT — A Trumbull man accused of defrauding Amazon.com, Inc. of more than $3.5 million was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison and three years of supervised release, David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced in a news release.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Amazon subsidiary Amazon Logistics contracts with various interstate trucking businesses to transport both empty trailers and trailers containing heavy loads of freight between cities and between warehouses and fulfillment centers operated by Amazon.
According to Sullivan, Ameer Nasir, 25, of Trumbull, registered 23 trucking businesses with Amazon Logistics.
Sullivan said one of the accounts was created in the name of Nasir's business, Pak Express Transport, LLC, and others were created under false names or by fraudulently using the names and identifying information of other trucking or transportation companies without their knowledge.
According to Sullivan, between approximately December 2019 and February 2021, Nasir used these accounts "to sign up for more than 1,000 transportation assignments with Amazon Logistics, manipulated information in Amazon Logistics' transportation management system to misrepresent that he had completed trailer movements when he had not and submitted fraudulent invoices to Amazon Logistics that were subsequently paid."
Nasir was arrested in May 2025 and pleaded guilty to wire fraud on March 6.
He was ordered by a judge to pay restitution of $3,547,090.93, according to Sullivan.
Nasir is released on a $300,000 bond and is required to report to prison next month, Sullivan said.
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