Indictment: Wilton man helped defraud cargo airline
Abilash Kurien, 45, of Wilton, was among several senior executives at Polar Airlines involved in a scheme to defraud the company, a federal indictment alleges.
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Abilash Kurien, 45, of Wilton, was among several senior executives at Polar Airlines involved in a scheme to defraud the company, a federal indictment alleges.
Former Polar Air Cargo COO Lars Winkelbauer has been arrested and charged, along with 10 others, with defrauding the all-cargo carrier of an estimated $52m. Mr Winkelbauer was arrested in Thailand and will be extradited to the US, while the nine other accused were rounded up by US federal law enforcement officers on Wednesday, after the US Department of Justice concluded it had sufficient evidence to move the case forward.
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Ten people have been charged in connection with a massive scheme to defraud a leading cargo airline based in New York of tens of millions of dollars in revenue and the services of its employees, federal authorities announced.The 10 charged…