The owner of a Utah trucking company was sentenced after being convicted on fraud charges.
According to a news release, on February 3, the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah sentenced Konstantin Tomilin to three years of supervised release.
The release also stated as part of the judgment, the court ordered Tomilin to pay $650,000 in restitution, forfeit cash and assets totaling $3,891,650, and a $100 assessment.
On February 2, 2024, the jury found Konstantin Mikhaylovich Tomilin and another defendant, Yevgeny Felix Tuchinsky, guilty of wire fraud and honest services fraud.
Authorities say its investigation revealed that Tomilin and Tuchinsky, along with others, owned Salt Lake Trucking Group (SLTG).
SLTG is comprised of several trucking companies that contract to carry packages for FedEx Ground (FXG). During the approximate 10-year period of the conspiracy, SLTG paid approximately $300,000 in bribes to Ryan Mower, a FXG linehaul manager. Mower used his position to game FXG’s process governing the awarding of new runs and helped the co-conspirators grow their business larger than FXG allowed by submitting false information to FXG. SLTG received about $150 million in revenue from FXG during the conspiracy’s lifetime.
The US Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (DOT-OIG) conducted this investigation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigations Division, and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service.
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