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Hélio Castroneves, the former Indy 500 racing champ who won the fifth season of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, is a lot of trouble today after the feds obtained an indictment against him for failing to pay millions in taxes from 1999 to 2004.
Castroneves, 33, along with his sister, Katiucia, 35, and his Ohio-based lawyer, Alan Miller, 71, face conspiracy and tax-evasion charges for hatching a tax-dodging scheme using an offshore shell corporation based in Panama to hide upwards of $5.5 million from the Internal Revenue Service.
According to the indictment, the threesome knowingly tried “to conceal and disguise the true and correct amount” of his income. In one instance Hélio claimed he only earned $200,000, despite the fact he made $2 million for work done for a Brazilian trading company.
Reps for Hélio Castroneves and his alleged partners in crime could not be reached for comment. But the trio are expected to turn themselves in to authorities and be arraigned in federal court Friday morning, according to the The Miami Herald.
Each could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
What is up with celebrities not paying their taxes?
Greedy much?
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