Utah trucking company owner sentenced in FedEx bribery scheme

The co-owner of a Utah trucking company was sentenced on fraud charges related to a bribery scheme involving FedEx Ground.

On February 3, 2026, Konstantin Tomilin was sentenced to 3 years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation- Office of Inspector General (DOT-OIG).

He was also ordered to pay $650,000 in restitution and to forfeit cash and assets totaling $3,891,650.

In February 2024, Tomilin and another defendant, Yevgeny Felix Tuchinsky, were found guilty of wire fraud and honest services fraud.

Tomilin, Tuchinsky, and others owned Salt Lake Trucking Group (SLTG), a group of trucking companies that contracted to haul freight for shipping giant FedEx.

Investigators said that over a 10-year period, SLTG paid around $300,000 in bribes to Ryan Mower, a FedEx Ground linehaul manager, in exchange for new runs.

Mower helped the defendants grow their business larger than FedEx Ground’s policies allowed by submitting false information, authorities said.

“Beginning around 2009 and continuing to 2019, the defendants bribed FedEx employees in exchange for those employees providing more business to SLTG. Instead of competing fairly against other contract service providers (CSPs) for FedEx business, SLTG bribed FedEx employees to obtain more miles and more money from FedEx. The bribes resulted in SLTG obtaining unearned FedEx business for over a decade,” said the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah.

The decade-long scheme resulted in about $150 million in FedEx Ground revenue for SLTG.

Officials said that Tuchinsky personally gained $7 million and Tomilin personally gained over $4 million from the scheme. 

This case was investigated by DOT-OIG, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service.