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Santa margarita, – In late 2012, Vanyo Minkov, a citizen of the Republic of Bulgaria and his conspirators hacked into the networks
of at least four accounting firms and stole the 2011 tax filings for over 1,000
of the firms’ clients. Minkov and others then used the stolen information to
file fraudulent tax returns in the clients’ names for the 2012 tax year or sold
the information to others for the same purpose. To date, the IRS has identified
over $6 million in fraudulent claims made in connection with the scheme.
Today, Minkov,
was sentenced to 46 months in prison today for his involvement in a $6 million
fraudulent tax return scheme that used personal identifying information stolen
from multiple accounting firm networks, according to announcement by U.S. Attorney
Paul J. Fishman.
Minkov,
previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares to a
superseding information charging him with one count of conspiring to file false
and fraudulent tax returns. Judge Linares imposed the sentence today in Newark
federal court.
According
to court records, in addition to the
prison term, Judge Linares ordered Minkov to serve two years of supervised
release and pay restitution of $2,702,555.
The
government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Pak of the
Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Attorney’s
Office Economic Crimes Unit and Assistant U.S. Attorney Barbara Ward, Acting
Chief of the office’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Unit.
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