Date: Jan. 24, 2024 Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov Dayton, OH — Rajesh Vaish pleaded guilty to two counts of filing a false tax return. Vaish was charged by bill of information on Oct. 23, 2023. According to court documents during 2019 and 2020, Vaish operated MS Auto Sales d/b/a Select Auto. Select Auto was a used car business that operated in Montgomery County. On his 2019 and 2020 tax returns that were filed from the Dayton, Ohio area, Vaish willfully failed to report significant portions of his actual income from Select Auto. Vaish kept a fictitious set of business records that intentionally misrepresented the sales of Select Auto. As a result of his willful failure to disclose his true income to the IRS during those years, the United States sustain a tax loss of at least $200,000. Filing a false tax return carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison. Kenneth L. Parker, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio and Bryant Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (CI), Cincinnati Field Office announced the plea entered on Jan. 22 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter B. Silvain Jr. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Brent Tabacchi and was investigated by special agents of CI. CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a more than a 90 percent federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 12 attaché posts abroad.
