The Internal Revenue Service has reportedly refused to return more than $59,000 seized in an investigation into a Maryland gas station owned by Oh Suk Kwon, who was a fleet mechanic in the U.S. Army. Government investigators seized the money but found no evidence that Kwon was guilty of any crime, according to The Washington Post.
The South Korean native became an American citizen and was a fleet mechanic in the U.S. Army. He bought a gas station in 2007 after he and his wife’s children grew up and left home.
In 2011, government investigators accused him of “structuring,” depositing money in increments of less than $10,000, based on a 1970 law, the Bank Secrecy Act, which orders banks to report any transactions larger than $10,000, the Post reported.
The bank seized his assets, the gas station went under, and Kwon’s wife died amid the investigation, due to the stress of the situation, Kwon said.
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