SACRAMENTO-Attorney General Edmund g. Brown Jr. announced today that the State Ministry of Justice, in close cooperation with the United States Attorney office, the Bureau of Alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, and the Government of the State Equalization is charged with special with the protection of individuals with regard to tobacco smuggling 15 and tax evasion schemes that are released approximately 34 million dollar State and county health programs and the State General Fund.
A three-year investigation has uncovered "rampant fraud" tobacco between distributors for a total of more than 80 million dollars, including today, in case the estimated tax losses. more than 20 million dollars for tobacco, property and money has been seized.
"This is rampant fraud with fake invoices will be used to hide contraband tobacco and often cause increased distributor mom-and-pop store wholesaler", said Brown. "We are you after each phony paper trail to ensure that the State will collect a penny velvoitehan tobacco product taxes."
15 Persons were arrested last week and range from $ 50,000 released detailing the debt securities. payments containing the commit mail fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy, and the illicit trade in contraband tobacco, is filed in Sacramento and Los Angeles United States District courts. In Los Angeles charged the defendants arraigned there and Sacramento defendants arraigned later this month.
In such cases of non-payment of taxes was "other tobacco products" such as cigars, chewing tobacco and leaves.
Under the law of the State of California, these "distributors" of the other tobacco products shall be to collect the excise duty-tax more than 45% of the wholesalers and monthly reports to the Council Board Equalization.The nature of the involvement of those taxes, distributors of undertakings included in the scope of Nevada or Arizona and that they are exported from the report of the tobacco must be determined and, therefore, does not owe the duty taxes. products are then further regard to California, where the actual sales of hidden shell companies make the products, the use of false documents, the amount of tobacco that understate the use of, and to reach out to the money from the sale to wholesalers.
"This study is vulnerable to the systematic and widespread tax evasion in the distribution of tobacco products in California," said U.s. Attorney Benjamin b. Wagner. " The industry participants, which may be tempted to short-change the laws of the State of California should be taken into account today announced prosecution and should understand that our studies are not on top of each other. "
Task force issue in 2008, look for the provision of the ideal tobacco, large Nevada Distributor.Seized from the ideal tobacco information to agents monitor the ideal's largest customers, who bought and sold in California tobacco ideal, but it is not for the State tobacco tax.
Individuals and payments are:
-Mansour, President and CEO, Galiom and Naeim Hanno, Chief Financial Officer of the South Bay wholesale, Inc., Carson, charged with fraud, mail counts 39. State the estimated losses are $ outstanding tobacco products tax rules 519,000.
-Adib Sirope and Rimoun Mansour, partners Pay-Less Wholesale North in Hollywood will be charged with fraud, 39 calculates the mail.Estimated status is 2,5 million euro for tobacco products tax.
-Atif Henan, Atef Shehata Samy Girgis and Soheir Girgis, traditional wholesale (and later House tobacco) in Los Angeles, with 17 counts of mail fraud. Estimated mode is equivalent to 1.5 million euros of non-payment of the tax on tobacco products.
-Jack Haroun, President and Chief Executive Officer, Wholesale Palace, Burbank, California, is charged with mail fraud 37 calculates the estimated losses are State. $ 554,000 tobacco products through tax unpaid.
-Muhammad Halaweh CTC distribution and T & T in the tobacco sector names unlicensed companies in Los Angeles, is to be levied on all 13 counts of mail fraud and eight counts of trafficking in human beings to the contraband tobacco. estimated mode is 5.3 million of non-payment of the tax on tobacco products.
-Mehdi Mohammed Humkar, used the name M & D unlicensed tobacco company in Los Angeles, shall be charged for 15 counts of mail fraud and seven counts of trafficking in human beings to the contraband tobacco. State the estimated losses are $ outstanding tobacco products tax rules 528,000.
-Rajnish Singh, Charanjit Makkad and Amrit Singh, principals of the Arctic Inc., Nevada corporation are not licensed under the OTP and IIG Inc. in Los Angeles, distribution, and will be charged 19 counts of mail fraud and contraband tobacco 16 counts of trafficking in human beings. State the estimated losses are non-tobacco products tax rules 13,8 million dollars.
-17 Counts of mail fraud and trafficking in human beings, contraband tobacco calculates 13 is responsible for Yousuf, owner and operator of the store Z Cash and Los Angeles, carry a Abdurrahman. estimated mode is 2,3 million euros of non-payment of the tax on tobacco products.
Although the penalty depends on the amount of mail fraud, each up to a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, $ fine detailing and for a period of three years supervised release for each amount of contraband tobacco. [1] [2] and the number of the maximum penalty for each conspiracy is five years in prison, $ detailing the fine and a three-year term of supervision.
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