FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
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special report
Legacy of Al-Capone kept Alive
Bootleggers and Tax Cheaters of Indian Descent indicted and are under investigation QQNine Chicago South Suburban Liquor Store Owners – Tax Evaders and Bootleggers -Charged and Arrested. Special to hi INDiA By Ajai Agnihotri
Shreyas Patel and Diptiben Patel – devised the scheme to dupe State of Illinois sensing a big difference in Excise tax. The comparative chart describe the big difference in taxes – In Illinois, the state, counties and cities impose excise tax.
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ootlegging is commonly associated with Prohibition, bathtub gin and gangsters like Al Capone, and was thing of past. Federal prosecutors say it’s alive and thriving in Northwest Indiana and Illinois. Neo rich Liquor Store owners have taken a leaf or two from the script of Al Capone and improvised to rake in Anjani Liquors Inc. also known as Columbia Liquors, Hammond, bought liquor in millions and sold to seventeen liquor stores owned or operated by themselves, friends, family or as straw owner through back door register. The stores as reported in indictment in FEDERAL COURT in State of Indiana: QQ Urmilaben Patel – mother of Diptiben Patel. – President / Officer of AM Wine & Spirits Inc. dba Marshfield Wine & Spirit, in Calumet Park, IL. QQ Shreyas Patel –President/ Secretary - Patson Liquor Inc. dba Buddy’s Liquor in Saul Village, IL QQ Shreyas Patel. –President/Sec - San Corporation Inc. dba Stop N Go Food Mart, in Chicago, IL. QQ Shisher Patel –President/Sec-Reya Wine & Spirits Inc. dba Brother’s Five Inc. Liquor in Chicago, IL QQ Suhel Haddad – President/Sec- Sami Brothers Inc. dba Sam Food & Liquor located in Chicago, IL. QQ Dinesh Patel – President /Sec- Dabaang Inc. dba Hareer Food & Liquor located in Chicago, IL. QQ Nilaysharan Patel-President/ Secretary: Treasurer – Shreyas Patel- Belmonte Food, Wine & Spirits, Inc. dba Belmonte Cut Rate Liquors located in Chicago. QQ Sachi Desai – President - 4801 Chicago Prestige Good & Liquor Inc. located in Chicago, IL. QQ Rajendra Patel.- President / Secretary - Ketul Inc. dba Paradise Liquor located in Calumet City, IL QQ Abel Aguilar.-President/Sec -421 East 104rd Street Corp dba Sheldon Liquors, located in Chicago. QQ Suchetaben H Patel-President/ Secretary -Kirtan & Bhakti Inc. dba JJ’s Minute Mart located in Chicago, IL QQ Ketan Kumar Soni, President / Secretary -Ken Emporium Liquor Inc. located in Midlothian, IL. QQ Shishir Patel-President/Secretary -Lawndale Food, Wine & Spirits Inc. located in Chicago, IL. QQ Jagruti S Patel- President - Ridpuj Inc. dba Palos Pantry located in Palos Hills, IL QQ Abel Aguilar–President - 11112 South Halsted Street Corp dba Sheldon Liquors located in Chicago QQ Shreyas Patel is the holder of the Liquor License for Kerfoot Food & Liquor Inc. located in Chicago, QQ Mikundbhai Patel – President/Secretary - He is husband of Urmilaben Patel – Both are parents of Dipti Patel – wife of Shreyas Patel.-PM Wine & Spirits Inc. located in Chicago, IL.
millions through tax evasion, interstate boot legging, cost cutting, un-fair business practices and putting competitors out of business to monopolize the area, as well as duping millions from the State of Illinois tax money.
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Wine
Liquor
Indiana $0.125
$0.47
$2.68
Chicago $0.61
$2.52
$13.73
from southern suburbs of Chicago, IL concocted an elaborate scheme to dupe the authorities for Sales Tax, Excise Tax, County Liquor Tax, City Tax, employment tax, State and Federal Corporate Income Tax and raked in millions for themselves.
Federal Agency- United States Secret Service, Chicago, IL through their cease and desist and search seized more than 1 million from Columbia Liquor, Hammond, IN from the five bank accounts at First Merchants Bank - $ 841,528/- , Safe Deposit Box - $45,000/-, Cash seized from Business place – Columbia Liquors - $ 72,268/-, Currency seized from Van - $12,000/- and $ 52,462/- seized from residence of Shreyas Patel & Diptiben Patel on June 08, 2017. As per the federal indictment Shreyas Patel and Dipteben Patel devised an elaborate scheme to defraud or obtain money by false or fraudulent pretenses. Shreyas and Dipteben, through their Indiana Liquor Store, purchased large quantities
If a Liquor-store owner in CooK County and Chicago avoids paying all the taxes – Excise Tax, City Tax, County Tax, State Sales Tax – the cost of his products would be less than that of his competition the same area. With reduced purchase costs, a liquor-store owner churn more profit and will undercut price charged by other liquor stores in the area, and still realize a greater profit for himself. This causes an un fair business practices and criminally intended bad competition. Eventually other store owners go out of business. Unlike cigarettes, there is no statue that liquor bottles to be labeled or stamped as proof that excise tax has been paid. Only distributor affix labels to cases of liquor that identify the distributor. Shreyas & Dipteben Patel, through Columbia Liquors, Hammond, IN purchased substantial quantities of liquor from three different Indiana distributors and had it delivered to Columbia Liquors, Hammond, Indiana
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed charges against the following nine individuals for bootlegging and evasion of taxes:
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Chirag Patel, 39, of South Bend, IN: AB Food and Liquor; Dipakkumar Patel, 41, of Munster, IN: Jeff ’s Food and Liquor; Jiggarkumar Patel, 37, of Schaumburg, IL: AB Food and Liquor; Mukesh Patel, 62, of Des Plaines, IL: Buddy’s Wine & Spirits; Nishant Patel, 33, of Des Plaines, IL: Liquors Galore (doing business as Maple Park Wine & Spirits), Buddy’s Wine & Spirits, and Madison Food and Spirits; Rajanikant Patel, 44, of Hoffman Estates, IL: Quick stop Food and Liquor; Vishal Patel, 31, of Des Plaines, Illinois: Buddy’s Wine & Spirits; and Yasir Kanan, 38, of Oak Lawn, IL: Jeff ’s Food and Liquor. Abdel Fattah Hamad, 41, of Tinley Park, IL: Al Mufleh Food & Liquors; Kanan and his business associate, Dipakkumar Patel, are each facing a Class 2 felony charge of evading sales tax of more than $10,000, a Class 2 felony punishable by three to seven years in prison.
of liquor and sold them to seventeen (17) Illinois Liquor Stores, at least five of which they own, for subsequent retail sale. The Columbia Liquors located in Hammond, Indiana, a border town of Illinois – twenty miles
From Jan 24, 2014 through Jun 27, 2017 – in 29 months period – Liquor Purchased from Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits (SGWS) was $ 19,389,776 in 34 months average of $ 570,250 every month and his monthly sale from front door register was $
