Source: United States Department of Justice
MOBILE, AL – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced an indictment charging six defendants in connection with an alleged tax fraud scheme that sought more than $177 million in fraudulent federal tax refunds. The investigation is part of ongoing enforcement efforts led by the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), to combat tax fraud and related offenses.