Woburn Man Charged With Evading Over $1.2 Million In Taxes

WOBURN, MA — A Woburn man has been indicted on felony charges after prosecutors said he evaded paying more than $1.2 million in taxes and underreported his business income by over $20 million.

Jean Brito, 47, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Middlesex Superior Court to five counts of tax evasion and five counts of making false tax returns.

Brito owns an office cleaning company based in downtown Medford, Boston Quality Cleaning Services, which he launched in 2002. Over the course of six years starting in 2018, Brito redeemed checks payable to his business at check cashers instead of depositing the income in the company’s bank account, according to court documents.

He also provided tax return preparers with incomplete financial records, prosecutors said, leading to inaccurate returns filed with the state Department of Revenue.

Detectives on Feb. 4 executed search warrants at the Medford business and Brito’s home in Woburn, seizing various documents, electronic devices and $35,000 in cash.

Attempts to reach an attorney representing Brito were not immediately successful.

Brito has been released and is due back in court on March 18. He was ordered to surrender his passport and not to leave New England.