In the $340,000 fraud case, Victor Ohiri and Stephen Ohiri will face potential maximum sentences of 115 years and 60 years, respectively, in federal prison.
LOS ANGELES — Two brothers from Woodland Hills who ran a stolen tax refund check scheme involving hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulently obtained payments are expected to be sentenced in October.
Evidence presented at their two-day retrial in downtown Los Angeles showed that from March 2014 to March 2015, Victor and Stephen Ohiri, together with others in the United Kingdom, conspired to use the Ohiris’ U.S.-based bank accounts to fraudulently obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal income tax refunds.
Based on the bogus returns, the IRS issued tax refunds, which were electronically transmitted not to the victim-taxpayers whose identities had been stolen, but instead to bank accounts controlled by Victor and Stephen Ohiri. The Ohiris then wired the majority of those refund proceeds to co-conspirators in the United Kingdom, and they withdrew the rest in cash for themselves.
IRS investigators seized roughly $181,000 from two of Stephen Ohiri’s accounts — money that came from just one of the fraudulently obtained tax refunds, prosecutors said.
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