An Orlando trucking and freight broker has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering after admitting he collected more than $1 million from the U.S. Postal Service for bulk mail deliveries that never happened. Khayyam Arif Oglu Farajov, an Azerbaijani national who ran Talishco LLC out of a South Kirkman Road address, won hundreds of USPS bulk mail contracts but routinely failed to send the trucks required to fulfill them.
A Former Trucker Turned Freight Broker
According to USAO Middle Florida
, Farajov pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering tied to a scheme in which he fraudulently obtained payments from the postal service by marking loads as delivered that were never actually driven. Farajov enrolled Talishco in USPS’s Freight Auction program in May 2022, according to the
Department of Justice…