{"id":275398,"date":"2026-06-19T10:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=275398"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:05:52","slug":"amazon-delivery-driver-jailed-after-making-millions-by-taking-exams-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/275398\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon delivery driver jailed after making millions by taking exams for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>An Amazon delivery driver who earned around &pound;2.4 million (more than $3.1 million) in the UK by taking exams on behalf of students has been sentenced to three years in prison, the Daily Mail reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, 43-year-old Shahid Adnan, who holds a PhD in philosophy, worked as a driver while providing paid academic services to students. He helped students complete tests and write coursework, receiving around $18,000 for one such assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal scheme was uncovered in 2023 after a student submitted a storage device containing a coursework paper to a professor. It was later discovered that Adnan had access to the university&rsquo;s relevant systems, where he completed students&rsquo; assignments for them.<\/p>\n<p>Police found a large amount of cash at Adnan&rsquo;s home, as well as more than $3.1 million in his bank accounts.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Amazon delivery driver who earned around &pound;2.4 million (more than $3.1 million) in the UK by taking exams on behalf of students has been sentenced to three years in prison, the Daily Mail reports. According to the report, 43-year-old Shahid Adnan, who holds a PhD in philosophy, worked as a driver while providing paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":275306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275399,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275398\/revisions\/275399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}