Fox Review Finds Uzbek-Owned Trucking Firms With Safety Citations Gave Large Donations to an Ohio Mosque Under Construction

A mosque going up in Maineville, Ohio, has become the focus of local worries about foreign-owned trucking companies, according to a Fox News Digital review. The report is part two of an exclusive series on trucking fraud, road safety and assimilation in southwest Ohio.

The donors. Fox says the Islamic Center of Maineville, under construction for four years in a village of about 1,400, posts on Telegram to 3,600 members and shows screenshots of gifts from local trucking firms owned by Uzbeks, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fox lists these, using federal safety records:

• Buraq Limited, Springboro: at least $28,000 in 28 gifts. Fox cites dozens of violations, including English-proficiency and invalid-CDL citations.
• Premier Trucking Group: at least $25,000. More than 100 violations in total.
• Foko Logistics, Hilliard: $20,000. 52 violations across 37 inspections, and 10 of 24 vehicle inspections ended in an out-of-service order, or 41.7%.
• Maca Transportation and Services, Dayton: at least $7,000. 120 violations across 72 inspections, with 14 of 36 vehicle inspections out of service, or 38.9%.
• Phoenix Cargo: $150,000. Fox says it helped organize the fundraising and has been cited hundreds of times. The company told Fox the sum "represents only a fraction of the mosque's total construction budget" and that it is "not even among the project's top 100 donors."

The Uzbek ties. The mosque's website says it does "not solicit donations from any foreign government." Fox says its Telegram account nonetheless shows links to the nonprofit Hamkor Uz Cincinnati, which owns the land, and to people described as current or former Uzbek officials, including an April 2025 six-member delegation that included Uzbekistan's ambassador and three officials from its Ministry of Digital Technologies.

The question Fox raised. Fox asked the mosque whether a Telegram administrator named "Bek A" is Bekhzod Asrarov, the Maineville truck driver authorities say hit and killed 21-year-old soccer player Tobias Forsythe earlier this year. The mosque did not respond. Earlier this month it said it is "committed to operating responsibly and in accordance with applicable law."

A local view. An anonymous researcher who tracks the trucking firms told Fox the pattern looks "almost like a shared blueprint" and asked whether gaps in U.S. rules are being exploited.

Note for readers: in the part we read, Fox does not say any donation was illegal or that the mosque broke a law, and the researcher's concerns are one person's view. The firms' violation records are federal inspection data as cited by Fox, and we did not check them. Only Phoenix Cargo's reply is included; the other firms and the mosque are not quoted.