SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Three businessmen have been charged with allegedly underreporting more than $50 million in sales from 2019 to 2022, from a dozen of their Central and Southern Illinois gas stations, which produced more than $4 million in tax liability.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul Wednesday charged 29-year-old Roger Multani of Peoria and brothers 34-year-old Surinder (Paul) Singh and 33-year-old Jitender (Jay) Singh, both of Indianapolis, IN, were charged in Peoria County and Sangamon County with multiple counts of theft, fraud and tax evasion.

Raoul’s office alleged that between January 1, 2019 and July 20, 2022, the three men collected millions of dollars in taxable revenue from customers and failed to remit the collected sales tax to the state of Illinois.

Among the stations owned and operated by the men are KKG5, located in Xenia, in Harrisburg and Metropolis, in Albion, Wayne City, and Pickneyville, KKG 2, 500 S. Broadway Ave., Salem, and KKG 1, 113 W Green St. Centralia