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Updated at 1:42 p.m., Thursday, October 11, 2007

Makiki Trading owner ordered to jail in tax case

Advertiser Staff

Sung Ho Park, owner and president of Makiki Trading Center Inc., was sentenced to 15 days in jail in connection with a misdemeanor tax case.

The state Tax Department said State Judge Faye Koyanagi sentenced the businessman to jail for failing to comply with a deferred acceptance of guilty plea agreed to in May 2006. Under that agreement, Park plead to having failed to file his corporation's general excise tax returns for 1999 to 2003.

The state said conditions of his deferred plea included his paying a fine of $10,000 for the corporation, a $1,000 personal fine as president of the company and restitution of $137,842.

Park's probation was revoked when he neglected the court order and after several hearings and continuances.

The tax department said it was the first criminal tax case in which a taxpayer's deferred acceptance of a guilty plea had been reversed. Park is to start his jail sentence tomorrow.