CON ARTIST SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR DEFRAUDING BROKERS OUT OF $2.6 MILLION IN ELABORATE SHIPPING SCAM

TRENTON – Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that a man was sentenced to prison today for orchestrating an elaborate shipping scam by which he defrauded five freight brokers out of $2.6 million. The defendant fled the country and was a fugitive for eight years after being indicted in 2011, but he returned in July 2019 and surrendered to the Division of Criminal Justice.