An Amazon worker stole more than £40,000 worth of goods in a “sophisticated process” from the warehouse where he was employed. Mahyar Afzal Houshmand, 23, was working at the Amazon warehouse at Logistics North in Bolton when he stole phones and other items in 2021. Manchester Crown Court how he had worked out a complicated scheme to send the stolen goods to his own home, but did not sell any of them on.
Prosecutor Huw Edwards said: “The crown’s case is that was part of a sophisticated process. “That included the shipping of the products out to a distributor and then having them posted to the defendant.” The case was heard at Manchester Crown Court (Image: Newsquest) Mr Edwards told the court that Houshmand managed to steal £42,777 worth of items before being caught after an internal investigation at Amazon.
He was then interviewed by the police and answered: “no comment” to most of the questions put to him but occasionally answered “ask Amazon.” Houshmand, who has no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to theft by employee of what would have been the first day of his trial. Mr Edwards said that he had betrayed “a high degree of trust” that his employers had placed in him.
Anna Bond, defending, accepted that Houshmand, of Manchester Road West, Little Hulton, had “no reasonable answer” for why he had done what he had. But she said that he did not seek to minimise or excuse his actions. Ms Bond said: “He entirely concedes that part of him must ha.
