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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN 

SOUTHERN DIVISION 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

 Case No. 14-20709 

 Plaintiff, 

 Honorable Matthew F. Leitman 

v. 

MAZIN KATTULA, 

 Defendant. 

______________________________/ 

PRELIMINARY ORDER OF FORFEITURE

 WHEREAS, an Indictment issued on November 6, 2014, charging 

Defendant MAZIN KATTULA in Counts One and Two with wire fraud in 

violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. (Docket # 13). 

WHEREAS, the Indictment contains a Forfeiture Allegation providing 

notice to the defendant pursuant to Fed.R.Cr.P. 32.2(a) of the government’s 

intention to seek forfeiture of all proceeds, direct or indirect, and or property 

traceable thereto. 

WHEREAS, the Affidavit of Timitre Kyriakides, Special Agent with the 

United States Secret Service, which was submitted in support of the Criminal 

Complaint against Defendant MAZIN KATTULA filed on June 9, 2014, details 

eleven (11) occasions when the defendant fraudulently obtained funds by 

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exploiting FedEx’s Electronic Collection on Delivery (ECOD) program. 

Specifically, on or about June 7, 2013, four (4) ECOD deliveries were sent to 

Metro PCS, 10001 Telegraph Road, Redford, MI 48239 from the Wireless 

Synergy ECOD account. All four (4) deliveries were paid for by PNC Bank check 

upon delivery by FedEx, upon which JP Morgan Chase account #XXXXX8246, 

which defendant had set up to receive ECOD payments from FedEx, was 

electronically credited the shipper’s pre-determined value of the packages, the total 

being $73,800.00. When the checks were presented to PNC Bank for payment all 

four were returned to FedEx unpaid due to the account, on which defendant was a 

signer, being closed. Nine (9) additional shipments were done using the same 

methods described above between the dates of September 11, 2013 and September 

17, 2013. These shipments were done using various company names and bank 

accounts. ECOD payments for these shipments totaling $168,900.00 were 

deposited into a bank account on which defendant was the only signer. In a third 

instance, a FedEx package with a stated value of $22,000.00 sent ECOD by one of 

defendant’s companies was damaged in transit. Upon inspection and inventory of 

the package’s contents by FedEx per its policy, the shipment was found to contain 

twenty-five (25) empty cardboard shipping boxes. Combining the nine (9) 

fraudulent shipments done in September 2013, with the $73,800.00 obtained from 

the four (4) fraudulent ECOD deliveries done in June 2013, the amount defendant 

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obtained from FedEx by means of this fraud scheme totals $242,700.00. (Docket # 

1, Affidavit, ¶¶ 9-17). 

WHEREAS, on January 26, 2015 defendant filed a Notice of Intention to 

Enter Guilty Plea, pursuant to which he gave notice of his intention to enter his 

guilty plea to the indictment without a Rule 11 Plea Agreement. (Docket # 18). 

WHEREAS, on January 29, 2015 Defendant MAZIN KATTULA pleaded 

guilty to Counts One and Two of the Indictment. 

WHEREAS, the United States has asserted that the defendant obtained 

$113,405.03 as a result of the conduct alleged in Counts One and Two of the 

Indictment, and requested entry of a Preliminary Order of Forfeiture in that 

amount. 

 THEREFORE, pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 32.2, and as a result of the 

guilty plea by Defendant MAZIN KATTULA to Counts One and Two of the 

Indictment: 

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that a money judgment in 

the amount of $113,405.03 is granted and entered against Defendant MAZIN 

KATTULA in favor of the United States of America pursuant to Title 18, United 

States Code, Section 981(a)(1)(C), Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461(c), 

and Title 21, United States Code, Section 853(p). 

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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the money judgment may be satisfied, 

to whatever extent possible, from any property owned or under the control of 

Defendant MAZIN KATTULA. To satisfy the money judgment, any assets that 

Defendant MAZIN KATTULA has now, or may later acquire may be forfeited as 

substitute assets under 21 U.S.C. § 853(p)(2). 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 32.2, this 

Preliminary Order of Forfeiture shall become the Final Order of Forfeiture at the 

time of Defendant’s sentencing and shall be made part of the sentence and included 

in the Judgment, and shall not be the subject of ancillary proceedings given that the 

forfeiture consists entirely of a money judgment. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Court shall retain jurisdiction to 

enforce the Preliminary Order of Forfeiture and to amend it as necessary, pursuant 

to Fed. R. Crim. P. 32.2(e). 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 /s/Matthew F. Leitman 

 MATTHEW F. LEITMAN 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

Dated: June 2, 2015 

 

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I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing document was served upon the parties 

and/or counsel of record on June 2, 2015, by electronic means and/or ordinary 

mail. 

 s/Holly A. Monda 

 Case Manager 

 (313) 234-5113 

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