August 08, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit vacated a Russian former gas executive's seven-year prison term and order to pay $4 million in restitution to the IRS, saying federal prosecutors were wrongly given extra time to bring charges against him for failing to file income tax returns.
May 30, 2024
The former chief financial officer of a Russian gas company who was sentenced to seven years in prison for hiding money in Swiss banks told a Florida federal court that the $44 million in foreign account reporting penalties the government is seeking is illegally high.
May 15, 2024
The former chief financial officer of a Russian gas company who was sentenced to seven years in prison for hiding money in Swiss banks can't escape the government's civil suit seeking nearly $44 million in reporting penalties, a Florida federal judge ruled Wednesday.
June 22, 2023
The U.S. is seeking $43.8 million in civil penalties against a former chief financial officer of Russian gas company Novatek who was convicted of lying to the IRS and hiding money in Swiss banks, according to a complaint filed Thursday in Florida federal court.