Top 3 IRS cases: Naples man makes the 2023 list by hiding millions

Kendall Little, Naples Daily News
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Every year, the IRS releases a list of the top 10 cases it had that year. They range from fraud schemes to tax offenses.

Last year, Naples resident Mark Anthony Gyetvay made the list. Here's what we know about his case.

Who is Mark Anthony Gyetvay and what did he do?

Gyetvay is the former chief financial officer of Novatek, a Russian natural gas company. He owns a residence in Pelican Bay and is a certified public accountant.

The Naples businessman was sentenced to 86 months in prison after hiding millions in undisclosed Swiss bank accounts when he worked at Novatek. Gyetvay also submitted a false filing to the IRS.

On top of his prison sentence, Gyetvay was ordered to serve three years of supervised release, pay a $350,000 fine, and more than $4 million in restitution to the U.S.

Mark Anthony Gyetvay, of Naples, former chief financial officer of Novatek, a Russian natural gas company
Mark Anthony Gyetvay, of Naples, former chief financial officer of Novatek, a Russian natural gas company

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Where did Gyetvay's crime rank on the IRS list?

Gyetvay's crime landed him the No. 2 spot on the IRS annual case list.

Here's a little about the other cases that made the list.

  • Gyetvay's case was only topped by one of the largest fraud schemes in U.S. history ― a $1 billion biofuel tax conspiracy.

    • Five conspirators were involved in multiple fraudulent schemes, "including money laundering, mail fraud, and fraudulently claiming more than $1 billion in refundable renewable fuel tax credits."

  • At No. 3 is a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency scheme called OneCoin.

    • Karl Sebastian Greenwood, a citizen of Sweden and the United Kingdom, co-founded OneCoin with Ruja Ignatova, aka the Cryptoqueen, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

    • He was ordered to pay approximately $300 million for creating the massive OneCoin fraud scheme.

  • The No. 4 spot belongs to a New Hampshire man who operated a bitcoin money laundering scheme.

    • Ian Freeman was sentenced to 96 months in prison and two years of supervised release.

    • He must pay a fine of $40,000 for laundering over $10 million from romance scams and other internet fraud by exchanging U.S. dollars for bitcoin.

  • Rounding out the top five is the leader of an illegal copyright infringement scheme.

    • Bill Omar Carrasquillo, known on YouTube as Omi in a Hellcat, was sentenced to 66 months in prison and had to pay more than $30 million in forfeiture and $15 million in restitution.

    • He created a wide-ranging copyright infringement scheme including piracy of cable TV, access device fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of copyright infringement.

  • Check out the other half of the list on the IRS website.

This article originally appeared on Naples Daily News: Naples man who hid millions from IRS makes top 3 list for 2023