The most wanted fraudster – the one to have cost the taxpayer the most – is Hussain Asad Chohan, 44. Smuggler Chohan, is wanted after failing to appear in court for his part in an estimated £200 million fraud in April 2006. Among other offences, Chohan imported 2.25 tonnes of hand-rolling tobacco worth £750,000 in […]
Given Hezbollah’s involvement in bootleg cigarette operations in the late 1990s in North Carolina and Michigan, this raises some interesting questions… A Pawtucket accountant has pleaded guilty of conspiring to bring $1.2 million worth of contraband cigarettes to Rhode Island from Virginia, where the cigarette tax is low. Bassam Kiriaki, 46, also admitted conspiring to […]
The spiritual leader of Stockton’s largest mosque faces deportation to his native Pakistan because he cheated on his taxes. Saeed Ur Rahman, imam of the Islamic Center of Stockton, was convicted by a federal jury in Sacramento last fall on two felony counts of tax evasion. His brother who also led the mosque was also […]
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