Cops claim he diverted shipping costs to a personal account.
, Ermenildo Valdez Castro, 28, is accused of manipulating product prices and altering the company’s code to divert shipping fees from Zulily to a personal account.
after Zulily began investigating that first issue, a replacement code that doublecharged a small percentage of Zulily customers for shipping, allowing Castro to route a ‘full’ shipping cost to both Zulily’s accounts and his own account, through which Castro unlawfully obtained $151,645.50 from customers; and
Castro also altered the prices of products sold on Zulily, allowing him to buy over 1,000 items of Zulily merchandise worth $41,000 for just $250, according to court documents.
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