Florida trucking school owner sentenced to prison for CDL scheme
Ellariy Medvednik, owner of Florida trucking school Larex Inc., has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison, one year of supervised release and fined $30,000 for his role in a fraudulent CDL testing scheme.
Medvednik and his employees, Natalia Dontsova and Adrian Salari, were charged with conspiracy to unlawfully produce Florida driver licenses and CDLs in August 2015, and Medvednik pleaded guilty in September.
Larex marketed itself toward Russian language speakers and charged students between $1,800 and $5,000 for services in obtaining a Florida CDL. According to the DOT OIG, Medvednik and others helped students cheat on the CDL written exam and provided false certifications and documents to satisfy residency requirements.
In November, letters were sent to approximately 2,000 CDL drivers who were identified as using third-party testers and medical examiners that were not testing properly, and drivers were given 60 days to retest or their CDL would be canceled.
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