Executives at one of Amazon’s largest third-party sellers allegedly posted adverts in search of a contract killer to goal the boss of a US warehouse operator as the corporations feuded over hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in storage charges, The Post has discovered.
The weird legal beef erupted last spring, when China-based DIY producer Vevor saw $55 million in instruments and other home-improvement merchandise locked up at Egreen Transport Corp’s warehouses across California, Georgia and New Jersey, according to court paperwork.
By the summer season, the dispute over unpaid rent had escalated – with Egreen accusing Vevor of vandalizing its workplaces and an government’s Tesla, hiring goons who impersonated cops and even making death threats against its proprietor, according to an October lawsuit in California state court that has since sparked a prison probe in the US and China.
‘Enough money for a down payment on a home’
The battle reached a boiling level forward of the July 4 weekend, when a Vevor government allegedly entered one of Egreen’s California warehouses and tried to bribe an worker for personal data about the proprietor of Egreen, a Los Angeles-based logistics firm that also had been transport Vevor’s items to retailers like Home Depot, according to court filings.
Photo of alleged security personnel employed by Vevor and despatched to Egreen’s warehouse. Obtained by the NY Post
According to an Egreen source with direct data of the incident, the Vevor government provided “enough money for a down payment on a home.” A former Vevor worker corroborated the account.
Days later, mysterious adverts appeared on Facebook and other social media posting “contract killing threats against Egreen’s owner and his family,” according to Egreen’s criticism filed Oct. 24 in California state court.
While law enforcement investigations stay lively, the lawsuit on Feb. 17 was withdrawn without prejudice – which means it can be refiled at a later date. Vevor was never served.
In a assertion, Vevor’s guardian company Hong Kong-based HK Sishun Trade Co. said: “We take these claims with the utmost seriousness. The suggestion of any involvement in a ‘contract killing’ is not only false but deeply irresponsible. We deny all accusations in the strongest terms.”
Cars outside Egreen’s headquarters were allegedly vandalized by Vevor associates. Obtained by the NY Post
“Sishun will respond to any allegations that are properly made and properly served at the appropriate time in court,” the attorney, Alan Engle of Cross-Border Counselor LLP, said in an electronic mail. “It appears that most of the allegations you mention were made by Egreen in an unserved complaint and lack plausibility on their face.”
Amazon ‘unable to take action’
Amazon, led by CEO Andy Jassy, has seemingly turned a blind eye to the mounting complaints against Vevor – which, as The Post reported has been accused of promoting faulty instruments on the web site linked to deaths and accidents.
As the battle escalated in July, Egreen’s attorney fired off a letter to Amazon detailing Vevor’s alleged threats and harassment recognized in the lawsuit. One of Amazon’s in-house attorneys responded by requesting more data, including copies of police reports and alleged violations of Amazon’s insurance policies.
Nevertheless, the Amazon lawyer said the company was “not in a position of a court or law enforcement agency” and “unable to take action at this time,” according to the letter which was shared with The Post by Egreen.
The shattered glass door at Egreen’s workplaces. Obtained by the NY Post
As completely reported by The Post, Vevor has confronted remembers and a number of wrongful death and harm lawsuits linked to its merchandise on Amazon. It has beforehand denied that its merchandise are of inferior high quality.
As of this month, Vevor — which has reportedly racked up more than $500 million in yearly gross sales on Amazon — stays lively on the web site and does not seem to have confronted any disciplinary motion from the e-commerce giant.
Amazon did not reply to a number of requests for remark from The Post about the dispute between Vevor and Egreen.
Cops probe ‘murder for hire’ claims
The explosive allegations have sparked a prison investigation – by not only police in California but also law enforcement in Shanghai, The Post has discovered.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at an occasion. REUTERS
Amazon did not reply to a number of requests for remark. REUTERS
“Shanghai is involved due to the murder for hire posts,” said Gerardo Medina, who was an investigator of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office handling the case until he was promoted to sergeant earlier last month.
Medina said that after securing a court order, he and other officers on Nov. 20 searched Vevor’s US headquarters in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Evidence gathered in the search led to “an investigative lead” for Shanghai’s law enforcement, Medina informed The Post, including that the Chinese officers have shared data with him and vice versa.
“The murder for hire posting appears to have been committed in China,” Medina said.
The police suggested the government at Egreen to rent personal security guards to defend himself and his household, according to two sources with data of the state of affairs.
Egreen alleged that Vevor associates blocked the entrance to its warehouses utilizing U-Haul vans. Obtained by the NY Post
The scary battle is spilling into public view even as Vevor has launched a bricks and mortar push, opening up its first ever US store in Houston on Feb. 13, according to the company. In March, Vevor announced a sponsorship deal with the NBA’s Houston Rockets. The staff did not reply to a question for remark.
Vevor’s new flagship, which bears shiny orange signage related to Home Depot’s, is targeted on a buy online, decide up in store model, Vevor said in a press release.
In December, Vevor created a pop-up store in Times Square, where customers could commerce in used instruments for new ones for $9.90 a pop.
Vevor: Egreen ‘not a reliable partner’
Management at Egreen claimed last March it was owed $48 million in unpaid storage and legal charges as it sequestered Vevor’s stock, according to the October lawsuit. It was alerted to the alleged adverts on Facebook and on the Chinese social media platform Rednote, the worker said.
The alleged hit man adverts included pictures of a prime Egreen government and allegedly provided $200,000 for data including his home deal with and as much as $5 million to kill him or his son, according to a number of sources who saw the posts before they were taken down.
Vevor not too long ago struck an official partnership with the NBA’s Houston Rockets. VEVOR x HOUSTON ROCKETS
In a assertion, Vevor denied the allegations, claiming Egreen was “not a reliable partner” and that the lawsuit “may be a deliberate attempt to damage our reputation in the context of an ongoing business disagreement.”
Vevor solid itself as the “victim” in the dispute, claiming that the Sheriff’s search warrant “stemmed from Egreen’s unwarranted interference with our normal business operations by withholding our inventories even though we have reached a Settlement Agreement with them under which millions of dollars have been paid by Sishun,” according to the assertion.
“We will fully cooperate with law enforcement should an investigation be initiated, and we are prepared to take all necessary legal actions to protect our company’s integrity.”
‘Fake police vehicles’
Local police have responded to at least 5 emergency calls by Egreen officers, according to court filings. A quantity of police reports in California have been filed, the sheriff’s workplace confirmed, but they stay under seal.
Egreen claimed that Vevor used U-Haul vans to block its warehouse gates, “dispatching fake police vehicles and individuals impersonating armed officers,” at its amenities east of Los Angeles and in Savannah, Ga., according to the criticism.
Vevor’s partnership with the Houston Rockets was announced in March. VEVOR x HOUSTON ROCKETS
Egreen’s go well with filed in San Bernardino County also accused Vevor workers of “vandalizing Egreen’s Los Angeles offices by shattering its glass door with a pellet gun,” according to court paperwork. The Post has reviewed alleged pictures of the harm.
That was as Vevor filed for a restraining order in July in California federal court to get its stock back. A decide denied the request on Aug. 1.
Vevor, for its half, has alleged that Egreen demanded “rate increases and additional payments” that Vevor and its guardian HK Sishun Trade Co. did not agree to, according to a lawsuit Vevor filed against Egreen in March 2025 in the US Central District of California after its stock had been confiscated.
Vevor acknowledged that its beef with Egreen has concerned the police. In March, Vevor said it was “forced to hire security personnel to monitor EGreen’s warehouses and the status of Sishun’s property,” according to its federal lawsuit. “This has led to confrontation at least one warehouse location where police were called.”
Egreen called police quite a few occasions when U-Haul vans blocked its entrances, according to court paperwork. Obtained by the NY Post
This lawsuit was settled, but Egreen claimed Vevor did not comply with the compensation phrases of their settlement and didn’t release Vevor’s merchandise from its warehouses. Egreen has since been promoting Vevor’s stock to make up for the charges it is owed, a former Vevor worker claimed.
Sources close to Egreen declined to remark on whether the company is liquidating Vevor’s merchandise. Egreen’s contract with Vevor permits it to do so, according to court filings.
The corporations started working collectively in 2020 as Vevor was ramping up its business in the US. Egreen dealt with the lion’s share of Vevor’s US logistics, storing stock and fulfilling online orders, and performed a key position in its rise as a outstanding vendor on Amazon.
The relationship had soured by late 2024, with each facet laying the blame on the other in court paperwork.
Egreen alleges that Vevor repeatedly pressured it to lease more warehouse space – first in Los Angeles and later in Savannah, Ga. and North Brunswick, NJ, while pledging ranges of transport quantity that never materialized.
Footage from a security digital camera outside an Egreen warehouse in California during the peak of the feud. Obtained by the NY Post
Signs of more hassle surfaced in January 2025, when Egreen was pressured to pay a $580,000 effective to the US Department of Labor to settle allegations of unpaid wages, housing its Chinese staff in overcrowded residences and coercing them into working 12-hour shifts.
Egreen blamed the violations on Vevor in court filings, alleging that the penalties occurred “as a direct result of the pressure” that Vevor imposed “to expedite deliveries” and that the impacted staff had “worked exclusively” on the Vevor account.
In a assertion, Egreen claimed it has endured “reputational damage… despite acting in good faith, Egreen has been forced to bear the legal, public and operational consequences of a crisis caused by Vevor.”
Vevor was based in 2007 by Shanghai-based Rubao Jiabo, who began out in the attire industry, according to a report on Chinese sellers by Brands Factory.
