Ather Ali, a resident of Diamond Bar, California, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Ali, 38, admitted to participating in a scheme to file false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) using the names and Social Security numbers of deceased individuals.
According to the indictment, Ali and his co-conspirator, Haroon Amin of Upland, California, filed at least 250 fraudulent returns in 2002 and 2003, falsely stating that these deceased individuals earned wages from which income tax was withheld.
The false returns claimed more than $2 million in income tax refunds, with a number of refund checks being issued and delivered to addresses controlled by Amin, Ali and their co-conspirators.
Most of these refund checks were then delivered overseas to be deposited in bank accounts in Armenia and Pakistan.
Ali admitted using fake forms of identification to open mailboxes in the names of deceased people, from which he collected a number of these fraudulently obtained tax refund checks.
Ali faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. His sentencing is scheduled for June 22, 2010.
John A. DiCicco, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, commended the efforts of agents from the IRS Criminal Investigation Division in Laguna Niguel, California, as well as Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles E. Pell and Tax Division trial attorney Joseph A. Rillotta, who are prosecuting the case.
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Key Facts
- State: Federal
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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