Trumbull Man Accused Of Defrauding Amazon Of $3 Million: Feds

TRUMBULL, CT — A Trumbull man is accused of defrauding Amazon of more than $3 million, federal officials announced Friday.

A federal grand jury has returned a 13-count indictment charging Ameer Nasir, 24, of Trumbull, with offenses stemming from a fraud scheme against Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”).

The indictment was returned on May 7, 2025. Nasir was arrested Thursday, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Dave Vatti in Bridgeport, and was released on a $300,000 bond, officials said.

In a news release, federal authorities said, "As alleged in the indictment, Amazon Logistics, an Amazon subsidiary, 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.

"Nasir registered 23 trucking businesses with Amazon Logistics. One of the accounts was created in the name of Nasir’s business, Pak Express Transport, LLC, and others were created fraudulently using the names and identifying information of other trucking or transportation companies without the knowledge of the operators of those companies," federal authorities said.

"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," federal authorities said. "Through this scheme, Nasir defrauded Amazon of more than $3 million."

The indictment charges Nasir with 13 counts of wire fraud, officials announced.