Car salesman accused in wire fraud scheme
FCA allegedly lost nearly $9 million in revenue
Apollon Nimo has been charged in a wire fraud scheme involving the trafficking of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Employee Purchase Control Numbers. Nimo worked at the Parkway Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in Clinton Township.
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MACOMB TOWNSHIP A Macomb Township car salesman is facing federal charges in a case dating back a few years.
An April 30 press release from the United States Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Michigan states that 34-year-old Apollon Nimo has been charged in a wire fraud scheme involving the trafficking of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Employee Purchase Control Numbers, or EPCNs.
Car Salesman Accused of Costing Fiat Chrysler $8.7 Million With Employee Discount Scam
On 5/4/21 at 1:37 PM EDT
A car salesman in Michigan is being accused of costing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) $8.7 million in a wire fraud scam.
The Department of Justice unsealed charges against 34-year-old Apollon Nimo on Friday, charging the Parkway Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram salesman with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for allegedly orchestrating a seven-year-long scam that involved illegally selling employee discounts to non-qualified car buyers.
Nimo was arrested on Friday and appeared in court before being released on bond. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison.
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A high-volume Fiat Chrysler Automobiles salesman in suburban Detroit has been charged with defrauding the automaker out of $8.7 million by giving employee discounts on vehicles to customers who weren t eligible.
Apollon Nimo, 34, a salesman at Parkway Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram, illegally used discount codes meant for family members of FCA employees in sales and leases to nonqualified buyers thousands of times from 2014 to the present, a federal investigator wrote in an affidavit filed Friday in U.S. District Court. Nimo closed more deals using employee discounts than any other FCA salesperson in Michigan, and at times was No. 1 nationwide, according to the affidavit.
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Detroit Federal prosecutors Friday charged one of the nation s top Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV salespeople with helping orchestrate a wire fraud conspiracy that cost the automaker $8.7 million.
Parkway Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram salesman Apollon Apollo Nimo, 34, of Macomb Township was charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for allegedly orchestrating a scam that involved illegally selling employee discounts to non-qualified buyers. He was arrested Friday and made an initial appearance in federal court later in the afternoon to face charges that could send him to prison for up to 20 years.
An unsealed criminal complaint obtained by The Detroit News describes a vast black market involving brokers who peddled employee discount numbers to salespeople who connected with buyers in private Facebook groups.