Two brothers residing in Glendale, and a friend in Surprise were recently sentenced for their roles in a sophisticated fraud scheme against Amazon.
Glendale’s Mughith Faisal, age 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John Tuchi on Feb. 5, 2026, to 18 months in prison.
His brother, Basheer Faisal, age 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa on Feb. 17, 2026, to 18 months in prison.
Abdullah Alwan, age 28, of Surprise, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich on March 2, 2026, to 6 months in prison.
All three men previously pleaded guilty to Wire Fraud. The men were also each ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution to Amazon.
According to the Department of Justice, court documents, and statements made in court, Alwan was an employee of Amazon working in the company’s logistics division. After leaving the company in 2021, Alwan used his knowledge of Amazon’s proprietary system that created and tracked transportation loads of Amazon products to increase the standard rates for transportation deliveries assigned to Amazon’s third-party carrier companies. Basheer and Mughith Faisal operated Blue Line Transport, an Arizona based transportation company approved by Amazon as a third-party carrier.
Blue Line Transport 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.
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