DOT IG’s Office says CDL school owner sentenced to 75 months in prison

Seventy-five-month prison sentence imposed on CDL school owner for licensing scam

The Trucker News Services

6/26/2008

WASHINGTON — The Department of Transportation's Inspector General's Office announced that Mustafa Redzic, owner of the Bosna Truck Driving School, was sentenced in U.S. District Court, Cape Girardeau, Mo., to 75 months imprisonment and 36 months supervised release.

On April 2, the IG’s office reported, Redzic was found guilty of bribery, conspiracy, and wire and mail fraud in a jury trial. DOT/OIG’s investigation revealed that in early 2004, Redzic and Tony Parr, a Missouri driver’s license examiner, devised a scheme whereby Redzic would send customers to Parr’s testing facility in Sikeston, Mo., to receive 30–minute short tests instead of the average 2–hour tests necessary to obtain their Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs).

Parr also falsely completed the test results that stated that each student passed a full, complete, three-part Missouri CDL test and mailed the results to Missouri’s Department of Revenue (DOR), which issues driver’s licenses and CDLs and employs officials and contracts with third parties to administer driver’s tests, according to the IG’s Office. Between January 1, 2004, and April 21, 2005, Redzic, through his company, earned approximately $1.8 million in tuition from more than 600 clients he sent through Parr’s testing facility.

DOR has cancelled or suspended all the CDLs and retested all the CDL holders that were processed through Redzic and Parr. This is an ongoing, multiagency investigation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Joint Terrorism Task Force; DOT/OIG; U.S. Marshals Service; Internal Revenue Service; Missouri State Highway Patrol; Postal Inspection Service; and St. Louis City and County Police Departments.