Federal agents searched a Georgia gas station as prosecutors accused three Atlanta-area men of cashing more than 16,000 U.S. Treasury refund checks worth over $74 million in an alleged tax fraud operation.
Investigators say the scheme began with Mexican identification documents bearing other people’s names. The men allegedly used those documents to obtain IRS taxpayer numbers, filed returns supported by fabricated wage statements and directed the resulting refund checks to post office boxes under their control.
The defendants are brothers Gustavo Rojano Salazar, 41, and Gabriel Rojano Salazar, 49, and Andres Huerta Rendon, 43, all Mexican citizens living in metro Atlanta. A federal grand jury charged them on October 6, 2026, and all three were arrested on October 14, when the Justice Department announced the case…