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Date: Nov. 14, 2025
Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov
HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on October 14, 2025, Anton Panin, a Russian citizen, who resided in south Florida, was sentenced by United States District Judge Keli M. Neary to 46 months in prison for running an extensive and long-running prostitution enterprise.
According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, Panin previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport and entice individuals to engage in prostitution. The evidence established that Panin operated a prostitution enterprise called XO Companions (or XOC) from at least 2016 until his arrest in 2023. Panin and others recruited women in Russia and other Eastern European countries to travel to the United States to work as prostitutes for XO Companions. Once in the United States, XO Companions workers traveled throughout the country to meet with clients in major cities. At Panin’s direction, XO Companions workers transferred a significant portion of the prostitution proceeds to him. Additionally, Panin operated a password-protected website through which clients could view schedules, view services offered, reserve time, and provide reviews.
The case was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Carlo D. Marchioli prosecuted the case.
IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) is the law enforcement arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. IRS-CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a 90% federal conviction rate. The agency has 19 field offices located across the U.S. and 14 attaché posts abroad.