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Vikas Menon pleaded guilty to three representative charges with Kapoor. The total tax evaded was $1,761,674.52. Menon, 38, was charged in relation to $535,642 of that. The charges related to tax evasion by 18 companies. None of the companies are still operating, so the two men were charged as parties to the offences. Kapoor was the primary operator of the companies and liaised with clients, supervisors, accounts and the IRD. He did this despite being bankrupt from December 2010 to December 2013. Crown prosecutor Clayton Walker told the court both men would cash cheques from the companies accounts in order to pay workers. This made it much more difficult to trace the companies activities, and was done against advice from their accountants and IRD.