Two married MTA employees, along with a third individual, have pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in a conspiracy to rig bids for MTA surplus vehicle auctions.
The husband-and-wife team of Dzmitry and Marina Yaniuk copped their guilty plea to fraud conspiracy on Feb. 9, the Justice Department announced on Monday. Their guilty pleas followed that of their co-conspirator, Timour Abramov, who admitted to a wire fraud conspiracy charge on Jan. 30. Federal prosecutors say that the trio of transit workers used insider information to cheat the bidding process in the auctions.
“The MTA’s riders and New York’s taxpayers trust government employees to put public service first,” said Daniel Glad, director of the Justice Department’s Procurement Collusion Strike Force, in a statement. “When public servants abuse their positions and cheat for personal gain, the Antitrust Division and its PCSF partners will hold them accountable.”to get rid of old inventory it no longer needs.
Abramov and Dzmitry Yaniuk, who worked as car inspectors at the Coney Island rail yard, incorporated a shell company in New Jersey explicitly for bidding on the auctions. Per their modus operandi, they would scan the other bids and, just before the 5 pm deadline, submit a bid slightly above the bid that would otherwise win.
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