A Takoma Park CPA was charged in an indictment released by the United States Attorney this week with filing 100 false tax returns and schedules between 2000 and 2002.
According to Vickie LeDuc, a spokeswoman for the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, Adeyese Y. Afe, 45, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was charged with corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the Internal Revenue Code and abetting the filing of false income tax returns.
Afe, who operated a tax return preparation service call Odua International Inc. reportedly charged his clients based on the number of forms he completed on their behalf.
In that way he was able to trick them into believing they could be reimbursed for more expenses so that they would file additional forms, according to LeDuc.
“He made his clients believe they had more deductions that they were really allowed under tax codes so he could inflate his fees,” she said Friday.
The indictment was returned on June 21 but wasn’t unsealed until Thursday, when Afe made his first appearance in court.
He faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison followed by an additional year of supervised release for each count if found guilty of the charges.
