Film producer charged in decades-long tax fraud conspiracy

A film producer and an Australian accountant have been charged with crimes related to their roles in a decades-long plot to defraud the United States by hiding the producer’s income and assets overseas, the Justice Department announced Friday.

According to the DOJ, Nigel Sinclair was part owner of film production company Intermedia and held half of his shares in the name of a Maltese nominee entity that he controlled. When the company listed on a foreign stock exchange, Sinclair arranged to sell his shares in the Maltese company for approximately $25 million.

He and an accountant, Anthony Stewart, then conspired …