{"id":13839,"date":"2015-07-22T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=13839"},"modified":"2015-07-22T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:35:38","slug":"fugitive-involved-in-a-multi-million-dollar-fraud-scheme-extradite-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=13839","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive Involved In a Multi-Million-Dollar Fraud Scheme Extradite to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Department<\/a>NEW JERSEY<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Eighteen years after disappearing from his court trial, a fugitive was arrested in Greece and extradited to the U.S. to serve a 10-year-sentence for \u00a0his involvement in an untaxed diesel fuel scheme.<\/p>\n

Gideon Misulovin<\/strong>, 58, whose last known address was in New York City, was extradited from Greece to the United States to serve his 10-year prison sentence.\u00a0 He has been incarcerated since his return on July 16, officials said.<\/p>\n

In August, based on an Interpol Red Notice<\/strong>, Misulovin was detained in a Greek airport using an alias and traveling with an Israeli passport. He was subsequently arrested and extradited, officials said.<\/p>\n

The evidence at trial established that from 1988 through Jan. 31, 1993, Misulovin and his co-conspirators sold untaxed diesel fuel in a series of paper transactions using wholesale companies.<\/p>\n

A former New York businessman disappeared the same day a federal jury sitting in the U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, began deliberating in his tax evasion and fraud trial, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

On March 7, 1996, officials said a jury convicted Misulovin of conspiracy to impede and impair the IRS in the ascertainment and collection of more than $6.5 million in federal motor fuel excise taxes, wire fraud and money laundering stemming from a scheme to conceal the unpaid diesel fuel excise taxes from state and federal tax authorities.<\/p>\n

During trial, Misulovin was free on $500,000 bail and attended each day of the trial.<\/p>\n

He failed to appear in court March 4, 1996, for the parties\u2019 closing arguments.<\/p>\n

On June 25, 1997, Judge Dickinson R.\u00a0Debevoise<\/strong> sentenced Misulovin in absentia to serve 10 years in prison and a three-year term of supervised release, and to pay a $150,000 fine.<\/p>\n

The court also ordered Misulovin to pay restitution in the amount of $200,000 to the United States and $100,000 to the state of New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Misulovin and his co-conspirators sold untaxed diesel fuel in a series of paper transactions using wholesale companies.\u00a0 Some of the companies were shams and called \u201cburn\u201d or \u201cbutterfly\u201d companies.<\/p>\n

The sham company would assume the federal and state tax liability and then vanish, allowing the conspirators to keep the excise taxes they collected from truck stops and service stations.<\/p>\n

In an effort to infiltrate the bootleg gasoline industry, Motor Fuel Task Force agents set up an undercover business called RLJ Management<\/strong> that competed directly with the defendants\u2019 operation.<\/p>\n

At the conclusion of the undercover operation, in November 1992, federal agents seized Misulovin\u2019s assets, including approximately $70,000 in cash from his residence and $277,000 from his business bank account, officials said.<\/p>\n

Misulovin\u2019s co-defendant and co-conspirator, Arnold Zeidenfeld<\/strong>, of Brooklyn, New York, plead guilty prior to trial and testified for the government.<\/p>\n

Gurmit Singh<\/strong> and Manbir Singh<\/strong>, of Matawan, New Jersey, who operated truck stops in southern New Jersey, also plead guilty for their roles in the scheme.<\/p>\n

(Interpol Information Video)
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