Three men from the Phoenix area have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a scheme that defrauded Amazon of millions of dollars by manipulating the company’s logistics payment system.US authorities said the fraud involved a former Amazon employee who used his knowledge of the company’s internal systems to increase delivery rates for a third-party transport company.Abdullah Alwan (28) of Surprise, Arizona, was sentenced on March 2, 2026, to six months in prison. Earlier, brothers Mughith Faisal, 29, and Basheer Faisal, 28, both from Glendale, Arizona, were each sentenced to 18 months in prison on February 5 and February 17, respectively. All three men had previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud.The court also ordered each of the defendants to pay $1.5 million in restitution to Amazon.According to court documents and statements made in court, Alwan had worked in Amazon’s logistics division before leaving the company in 2021. Investigators said he later used his knowledge of Amazon’s internal systems that create and track transportation loads for deliveries.“According to court records, Abdullah Alwan was a former employee of Amazon, and used his knowledge of Amazon’s systems to increase the standard rates for transportation deliveries by third-party carrier companies.”The inflated rates benefited Blue Line Transport, an Arizona-based company operated by the Faisal brothers. The company had been approved by Amazon as a third-party carrier responsible for transporting goods.“Basheer Faisal and his brother Mughith Faisal operated a third-party carrier company and knowingly received the fraudulently increased transportation rates that Alwan input into Amazon’s system, working with him to defraud Amazon of approximately $4.5 million.”Authorities said the scheme allowed the group to collect payments far above normal delivery rates.
