Three men were arrested in metro Atlanta on federal charges for allegedly stealing more than $74 million from the U.S. Treasury by operating a massive fraud scheme.
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All three men — Gustavo Rojano Salazar, Gabriel Rojano Salazar, and Andres Huerta Rendon — are Mexican nationals living in metro Atlanta.
The men allegedly filed hundreds of fraudulent tax returns between between January 2019 and now, according to U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg, the charges and other information.
The men were able to file false returns by allegedly using Mexican identification documents to request Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (“ITINs”) from the Internal Revenue Service. The three then allegedly prepared and filed fraudulent tax returns in the ITIN holder’s name.
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The tax returns the men filed reported false withholdings.
Tax refunds were mailed to P.O. boxes controlled by the men, leading them to receiving more than 16,000 tax refund checks.
The men allegedly laundered the money by cashing the checks at a north Georgia check cashing business. They received cash by the bundles, photos of which were included in the evidence against them.
The men are in the custody of U.S. Marshals Service ahead of legal proceedings.
“My office is committed to prosecuting and punishing those who steal or fabricate identities to plunder public coffers,” Hertsberg said.
This indictment is the result of the tireless work of IRS Criminal Investigation special agents and our law enforcement partners, who uncovered an alleged scheme that exploited the tax system to fraudulently obtain more than $74 million in refunds,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Maisha Horton, IRS Criminal Investigation, Atlanta Field Office.
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