00:00The Fraud Division's tax section brought an indictment in the Northern District of Georgia
00:04charging three individuals with numerous crimes arising out of a $74 million scheme to defraud
00:10the IRS. According to the indictment, the men, all Mexican citizens, obtained Mexican IDs of
00:19third parties and used them to get IRS filing numbers. They filed fraudulent returns using
00:26those identities, and they allegedly received more than 16,000 U.S. Treasury refund checks totaling
00:34around $74 million. Stolen identity refund fraud cases must be stopped. We must stand ready to
00:44protect our government's revenue sources from bad actors wherever they might live and operate.
