A South Carolina man was arrested for not reporting more than $ 2 million in sales at his convenience store in Simpsonville, where a billion-dollar lottery ticket was sold in 2018, officials said.
Chirag Jayanti Patel, 49, was charged on Friday with five counts of tax evasion related to allegations that he did not report sales at KC Mart from 2013 to 2017, the South Carolina Revenue Department announced. Patel reportedly never reported $ 2,044,737 in sales made at the convenience store and, in turn, never paid $ 123,044 in sales taxes.
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He faces up to five years in prison and a $ 10,000 fine if convicted.
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Patel’s store sold Mega Millions’ $ 1.537 billion ticket in October 2018, after which his company received a $ 50,000 bonus for the sale of the winning receipt, according to reports at the time.
According to Greenville News, the winner was a South Carolina woman who stopped by the convenience store while in Simpsonville from out of town. It received a total amount of $ 877.78 million, the report states.