Yigal Ziv, 54, Indicted for Employment Tax Crimes in Detroit

A federal grand jury in Detroit, Michigan, returned an indictment today charging Yigal Ziv, of West Bloomfield, with not paying over employment taxes to the IRS.

According to the indictment, Ziv owned and operated Multinational Technologies Inc. (MTI), a software developer for manufacturing products. Ziv allegedly collected approximately $691,000 in employment taxes from MTI’s employees but did not file employment tax returns or pay the withheld taxes to the IRS from the first quarter of 2014 through the first quarter of 2018.

Even after learning of the IRS’s ongoing criminal investigation in May 2018, Ziv allegedly did not file MTI’s employment tax returns from the fourth quarter of 2019 through the fourth quarter of 2020 and did not pay over to the IRS approximately $199,000 in payroll taxes withheld from MTI’s employees.

According to the indictment, during the same period he did not pay over taxes to the IRS, Ziv caused MTI to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for his own personal benefit, including home mortgage payments, luxury auto lease payments, and department store purchases.

Yigal Ziv faces up to five years in prison for each of the 22 counts of willful failure to collect or pay over employment taxes. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The case is being investigated by the IRS Criminal-Investigation and is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Kenneth C. Vert and George Meggali of the Justice Tax Division.

An indictment is merely an allegation and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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