Area businessman faces offshore tax evasion charges

FORT MYERS — A federal grand jury in Fort Myers recently indicted the CFO of a Russian gas company, Mark Anthony Gyetvay, who lists his home in Naples on social media, in a tax evasion case related to $93 million in offshore accounts. Gyetvay, through social media, has denied the charges.

Gyetvay, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice, allegedly concealed “his ownership and control over substantial offshore assets and (failed) to file and pay taxes on millions of dollars of income.” He’s charged with defrauding the United States by not disclosing his substantial offshore assets, failing to report substantial income on his tax returns, failing to pay millions of dollars of taxes and submitting a false offshore compliance filing with the IRS in an attempt to avoid substantial penalties and criminal prosecution.