travel industry is riddled with potholes and often are taken vant of which an airline in US got to kw about when it was gamed of $1.75 Million by an Azerbaijan man kwn as Genny Podolsky who was often regarded as a Travel nt par excellence and was kwn for getting his clients from one destination to ar with speed and insight. He allegedly embezzled 42 million SkyBonus points. 

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Tre secrets and fraud of $1.75Million

In year 2016, a wired description illustrated a man who h used his "deep bag of tricks" to a range of situations. Be it Nigerian chess players making a tough journey to rway or a traveller who needs to leave Azerbaijan. Apart from his own travel intelligence, reportedly he used internet's favourite tools of proxies, private browsers among ors to find lowest and best possible fares for his customers. According to reports, rest of his methods are tre secrets and that while explaining his methods he smiled incently and said that y have to get very creative. One of his tricks which prosecutors have alleged was to fraud Delta SkyBonus miles program, a kind of loyalty program for Delta customers. He reaped millions of points and booked tickets on behalf of company's customers, which prosecutors said were prima-facie of Russian and Eastern European origin who lived in a different country.

Reportedly, US Attorney said that Podolsky used his kwledge of travel industry to take vant of travel ncy customers and through his access, he allegedly took vant of Delta Airline corporate loyalty program reaping millions of SkyBonus points worth more than $1.75 Million. On September 12, an owner of Vega International Travel ncy was indicted in Atlanta state on charges of wire fraud after being indicted by a grand jury. He pleed t guilty and will be allowed to await trial at his residence in Chicago, assistant US Attorney John Ghose in a statement revealed.

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SkyBonus program fraud 

Delta Airline's SkyBonus program permits businesses to garner points with ir employees to travel with airline that can be spent on flights and or airline services. But re's a condition which is that traveller must be an employee of company to be able to claim this. Prosecutors ded that Podolsky me a SkyBonus account in a fertility clinic and owned by a family member of Vega International Travel's president and n booked flight tickets for his customers using that account passed m as employees of fertility firm. Podolsky allegedly incorporated fraud between March 2014 and April 2015 and collected and claimed more than 42 million SkyBonus points prosecutors said. 

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Podolsky's Lawyers and Delta Airlines respond

According to reports, in a statement, Podolsky's lawyers refuted that his actions were fraudulent or that Delta suffered any loss. statement furr said that: Genny Podolsky is a respected and a travel visor of a high skill who has h loyalty of customers for many years w. Podolsky's actions were t at all fraudulent and while Government may say that Delta is victim, evidence at trial shall show as to how Delta inste got millions of dollars of profit from its relationship with Mr. Podolsky. accusation that Podolsky's conduct somehow disvants customers is unfounded. 

Delta Airlines issued a statement which said that y were happy to see any kind of fraud which was indicted and will continue to with FBI and District Attorney's office to make sure this case is protected to fullest extent possible. Podolski origins can be traced from Kyiv in Ukraine, he holds dual Ukranian and American citizenship. He arrived in US at 17 to attend Swarthmore College and opened his first travel ncy in 1993, according to reports.

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