Danesh Ganesh, 62, was charged with five crimes, including tax evasion, officials said.
DALLAS — A Westlake man who owns several businesses, bars and nightclubs in the DFW area and who allegedly failed to pay taxes since 1992 was indicted last week, federal prosecutors announced.
Danesh Ganesh, 62, was indicted on Jan. 17 on five counts of tax evasion, one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and one count of conspiracy to launder financial instruments, federal officials said. Ganesh was arrested Friday and appeared before federal Judge Rebecca Rutherford on Monday, officials said. Officials say the amount of unpaid taxes is approximately $1.6 million.
Some of Ganesh's businesses include Dallas, El Paraiso, El Reventon Presents Jack Mark's Lounge, Tacceria Garibaldi, Las Hamacas, and RG Developments, Inc., a company that sells used tires in Dallas. There was the Ganesh Group, which leased commercial properties. , according to the indictment.
According to the indictment, Ganesh is suspected of using the names of his ex-wife, brother and son to conceal ownership of his business.
Ganesh did not have an account in his own name and did not have signature authority on bank accounts opened in the name of the companies he ran, and payments from the companies were collected in the form of checks and cash, officials said. claims. Officials said the checks were cashed at a check cashing business and used to purchase cashier's checks.
Ganesh and others are also suspected of selling cocaine at some restaurants and bars, according to the indictment.
If convicted, Ganesh faces up to five years in prison for each of the five tax evasion charges, 20 years in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, and 20 years in prison for conspiracy to launder financial instruments. That's possible, officials said. To tell.
