Three Men Charged w/More Than $4 Million in Tax Fraud

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul Wednesday charged three men who own and operate a dozen Central and Southern Illinois gas stations for allegedly underreporting more than $50 million in sales from 2019 to 2022, which produced more than $4 million in tax liability.

29-year-old Roger Multani of Peoria and brothers 34-year-old Surinder (Paul) Singh and 33-year-old Jitender (Jay) Singh, both of Indianapolis, IN, were charged in Peoria County and Sangamon County with multiple counts of theft, fraud and tax evasion.

Raoul's office alleged that between January 1, 2019 and July 20, 2022, the three men collected millions of dollars in taxable revenue from customers and failed to remit the collected sales tax to the state of Illinois.

Among the stations owned and operated by the men are KKG5, located along Illinois Route 32 in Stewardson and on Church Street in Xenia, and SPM Group, located on 4th Street in Albion and on Main Street in Wayne City.