Dancing With The IRS

“Dancing With The Stars” Winner Helio Castroneves Charged As Tax Dodger

Helio Castroneves Or Helio Snipes

Wesley Snipes Has Company

October 2. 2008

“Dancing With The Stars” champion Helio Castroneves, his sister and lawyer has been indicted in Miami on tax evasion charges.

The United States’ Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whose motto is “We will get you” (just kidding) charges Wesley Castroneves created a shell company in Panama to hide his assets (not kidding about that).

U.S. charges racer Castroneves with tax crimes

MIAMI, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Brazilian race car driver Helio Castroneves and his sister were indicted in Miami on Thursday on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States of income taxes, prosecutors said.

The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and his sister, Katiucia Castroneves, were also charged with six counts of income tax evasion for the years 1999 through 2004.

The indictment alleged they used a Panamanian shell corporation to fraudulently conceal from the Internal Revenue Service income received from Penske Racing and another company.

Castroneves, 33, lives in the Miami suburb of Coral Gables.

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