United Cargo Management UCM, United Cargo Management Gardena, CA, Anis Chowdhury, Ting Chien Fraudulant Billing. Illegally holding freight after paid in full but asking for more money paid to a shell agent. Extortion Gardena California
Anis Chowdhury and Ting Chien of United Cargo Management are dishonest fraudsters. Do not book freight with them, or do any business with them. They will hold your freight even after you have paid the full invoice for all freight charges. Their scam is that they delay your freight until you are in a bind with deliver time. Once they know you are late receiving your freight, then they start asking you for extra payments, which is extortion.
Anis Chowdhury and Ting Chien are partners in crime. They take your payment, and tell you they will just hold it, and then they ask for another payment in the exact same amount that is due for the freight charges. The refuse to release the goods from port, and show you all this legal documetns showing that they have the right to do it (even though if you consult a freight attorney its very clearly illegal to do this). But unless you pay tens of thousands of dollars in court and have your freight held up for 6 months during the process, then you have no recourse. In the end you would win the case against them, that thy are not allowed to hold yoru freight if its been paid for, but they know nobody is going to spend ten thousand in court, and 6 months, when the freight invoice is only five thousand.
So they know people will just pay the extra $3,000 or $4000 to get the freight out. They run this racket and nobody is stopping them. I'm sure United Cargo Management is in on it, and its not just these two indifivuals, so I would never do any freight business with United Cargo Management, but especially not with Anis Chowdhury or Ting Chien. You will get your freight, but you will pay double for the freight charges, and there will be nothing you can do about it, because its better to pay their extortion then to lose all the goods in your shipment or have it tied up for six months. So if you do business with them, be prepared to pay $3,000 extra per container to their personal extortion fund.
The only reason they have not been arrested is because they have you send the payments to another agency not in their name. You still end up paying twice, but its not traced back to them. And once you've paid in cash, or a wire transfer or they have depostied your company check, you can noto retract those payments without a lengthy court case. Good luck getting your money back. They only do it a few thousand dollars per shipment, so its more expensive in legal fees than what you would collect when you prove you got extored for the extra money. Unless somebody wants to put together a class action suit. But who has the time for that, and they know it, so they just rip off each customer a few thousand dollars at a time. Just do not do business with them. There is no reason to take the risk that you will be their next victim.