Former IRS special agent charged with multiple counts of tax fraud

A former IRS criminal investigation special agent could be facing several decades of imprisonment, as well as substantial fines, if found guilty of falsifying tax returns, theft, obstructing justice and destroying evidence. 

Alena Aleykina, of Sacremento, California, has been indicted on multiple counts of filing false income tax returns for herself, family members, trusts and partnerships, making false statements to Treasury Department representatives and destroying evidence pertinent to her investigation on a government computer. In addition to claiming false filing statutes, dependents, deductions and losses on behalf of trusts between 2008 and 2013, Aleykina is charged with fraudulently collecting IRS tuition assistance reimbursement payments, as well.

The case, being prosecuted by the Justice Department’s Tax Division, could result in Aleykina receiving three years in prison on each of six false tax return counts and one obstruction count; 10 years in prison for the theft of government money; and 20 years in prison for destruction of evidence.