EDWARDSVILLE — The owner of a Thai restaurant in the Montclair Shopping Center in Edwardsville was indicted March 26 on nearly 40 felony counts related to failure to pay sales taxes over a 4-year period.
Saram Puribhat, 54, of Belleville, owner of Zapp Thai Restaurant Inc., 1500 Troy Road, Edwardsville, was indicted March 26 on two counts of theft of governmental property over $100,000, both Class X felonies; and one count of wire fraud and 35 counts of fraudulent filing of state tax returns, all Class 3 felonies.
The Illinois Attorney General’s Office presented the case…