Oleg Tinkoff is said to have smuggled hundreds of millions of dollars past the tax office in the USA. The following penalty for the Russian banker is juicy.
Washington / Moscow (dpa) – The well-known Russian businessman Oleg Tinkoff paid more than 500 million US dollars (432 million euros) in compensation for deliberately incorrectly submitted tax returns in the USA.
That is more than double the tax money that the founder of the Russian Tinkoff Bank wanted to smuggle past the Treasury Department, said the US Department of Justice. The amount also includes a $ 100 million fraud penalty.
The 53-year-old, who lives in Great Britain, will also be placed under supervision for a year. According to Russian media reports on Saturday, Tinkoff was grateful for the “humane solution” and regretted his offense.
Tinkoff, who was now a US citizen, filed tax returns in the US between 1996 and 2013, according to the US judiciary. He was arrested in the UK in 2020. He defended himself against extradition to the USA with reference to a serious illness. According to Russian media, the US judiciary has counted Tinkoff on a prison sentence served in Great Britain and is now not pursuing his extradition.