Owner of H&M Relocation moving company convicted of theft in Weld County

GREELEY, Colo. — The owner of a Colorado moving company accused of theft by multiple people over the years was convicted Friday by a Weld County jury.

Huseyn Nemat-Zoda, 40, who also goes by the name David Zoda, was found guilty of two counts of theft, both Class 3 felonies, after a four-day trial.

Nemat-Zoda, owner of H&M Relocation – a company that Denver7 Investigates has exposed multiple times — was accused of scamming victims more than $16,000, promising to load, transport and deliver their belongings, which were never delivered.

The trial stemmed from a June 2021 incident, where prosecutors said which Nemat-Zoda entered into a contract with the victims who had hired him to move their belongings from Greeley to Bloomington, Ind., with an expected delivery date of 24 days.

Prosecutors said Nemat-Zoda never produced a contract until after the victim’s items were loaded onto his trucks and required that the victims pay “a substantially higher amount” than they had been previously quoted. A copy of this contract was never provided to the victims.

In all, the victims in that case paid the suspect $16,448.93 for his moving company to load, transport and deliver their belongings, which had an estimated value of no less than $150,711.99.

Nemat-Zoda repeatedly made promises to have their items loaded and delivered to his customers, but that never panned out.

After the 24^th day, when delivery was due, he allegedly stopped responding to calls. That’s when the victims filed a police report with the Greeley Police Department.

An investigation revealed that a majority of their customers’ belongings were in a self-storage business in Englewood. Nemat-Zoda had rented 24 self-storage units and was in default status after renting those units to hold all of his victim’s belongings, prosecutors said.

A sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 9 at 2 p.m. in Division 11.