Earlier this week, the federal government indicted a 46-year-old Tampa man on seventeen counts of filing false tax returns. The false returns totaled $704,676.

Koffi M. Gbikpi was arrested on Tuesday. According to the indictment, he prepared and filed the tax returns in the names of several individuals between February and November of 2009. Gbikpi allegedly used several Internet email addresses to electronically submit the false income tax returns to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service).

If convicted on all of the charges, Gbikpi faces five years in federal prison on each count. He could receive a maximum of 85 years in prison.