Fake GST bill scam of upto Rs 8,000 crore unearthed in Pune

Sources said that Kalvadiya was booked adjacent successful the past successful Gujarat successful transportation with a fake GST billing racket.

The different accused include, Nitin Barge, Faizal Mevalal, Nizamuddin Khan, Amit Tejbahadur Singh of Ulhas Nagar, Rahul Baraiyya, Kaushik Makwana and Jitendra Gohel, the constabulary said.

The officials said successful a connection connected Saturday that the accused radical allegedly conspired to signifier a bogus GST steadfast from September 2018 to March 2024 and procured fake rubber stamps successful the sanction of antithetic companies. Besides they besides utilized fraudulent slope accounts and fake SIM cards to signifier a fake company, they stated.

As per the First Information Report (FIR), the accused did not transportation retired immoderate income oregon concern done the company, but prepared fake GST bills to amusement aggregate concern transactions. The accused sent the fake GST bills to assorted firms, causing a nonaccomplishment of astir Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 8.000 crore to the government, it stated.

A DGGI serviceman lodged the FIR astatine the Koregaon Park constabulary presumption successful Pune metropolis connected Friday and the constabulary registered a lawsuit nether Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 420,465,467,471,120(b), and 34 and sections of Information Technology Act.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Smartana Patil said that elder inspector Runal Mulla is investigating the case.