1996-01-24 -- Northboro Man Charged with Multiple Tax Offenses
U.S. Department of Justice
D
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United States Attorney
District of Massachusetts
                                                                      
1003 J.W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse
Boston, Massachusetts 02109
                                                                      




                                        January 24, 1996

                          PRESS RELEASE

        NORTHBORO MAN CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE TAX OFFENSES

     United States Attorney Donald K. Stern, Frederick P.
Aufiero, Chief, Criminal Investigation Division, Internal Revenue
Service, and Richard Swensen, Special Agent-in-Charge of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that SUBRAHMANYAM
(SUBU) M. KOTA, 50, 72 Wesson Terrace, Northboro, was indicted
today by a federal grand jury.  

     The twelve-count indictment charges KOTA with seven counts
of subscribing to false returns.  For each of the years 1989-
1993, KOTA is charged with subscribing to a false joint United
States Individual Income Tax Return, Form 1040.  For each of the
years 1993-1994, he is charged with subscribing to a false United
States Income Tax Return for an S Corporation, Form 1120S, for
BSST Software Group, Inc. d/b/a The Boston Group ("The Boston
Group").

     The indictment also charges KOTA with two counts of aiding
and assisting in the preparation of a false return for The Boston
Group for the years 1990 and 1991.

     Finally, the indictment charges KOTA with three counts of
tax evasion in willfully attempting to evade income tax owed by
him for the years 1991-1993.  The indictment charges that the
additional tax owed by him was:  $15,804 for 1991, $27,281 for
1992, and $60,489 for 1993.

     The defendant faces maximum penalties of five years'
incarceration on each of the three evasion charges and three
years' incarceration on each of the nine false return or aiding
and assisting charges in the indictment.  

     KOTA is currently awaiting trial on a separate indictment
charging him with espionage and with conspiracy to transport
stolen property in foreign commerce.
 
     The case against KOTA was investigated by agents of the
Criminal Investigation Division, Internal Revenue Service and of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Boston.  It will be
prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alexandra Leake, a member
of the Public Corruption and Special Prosecutions Unit, and
Despena F. Billings, a member of the Major Crimes Unit, in
Stern's office.    

     The investigation is continuing.

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