Rs 137-Crore tax fraud in Ghaziabad: CGST team raids 36 locations, arrests businessman
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The accused was running over 40 shell companies using different PAN numbers, mobile numbers, and bank accounts.
(Reported by Prateek Kaushik) Ghaziabad: The Central GST team has arrested a businessman in the investigation of tax evasion of Rs 137 crores in Ghaziabad. The CGST team was investigating the case for the last 4 months.
The team searched the residences and offices of the accused at 36 places in Ghaziabad on April 4 and 5 and seized all documents. After his arrest, Rajiv, the mastermind of creating fake companies in tax evasion, was produced in a special court in Meerut on Tuesday (April 5), where he was sent to 14-day judicial custody.
The investigation in the matter was initiated in December-2020.
An inquiry was initiated in December 2020 against Ghaziabad-based M/s Jai Enterprises and 41 other firms on the orders of CGST Commissionerate Meerut Zone. In the investigation, it was revealed that these were all shell companies which were being run by the same person using different PAN numbers, mobile numbers and bank accounts. Invoices of about Rs 628 crore and tax evasion of Rs 99 crore were exposed during the investigation at that time.
Investigation team is suspecting the involvement of over 100 fake companies.
