The GST Directorate General of Intelligence (DGGI) has so far arrested 59 people, including three public accountants (CA), in 10 days of its national campaign against the submission of false invoices for goods and services tax (GST).
According to people familiar with the events, Mitesh M Shah, whom the DGGI has named the mastermind of the fake invoice scam, is among those arrested. Shah created 115 bogus companies to take advantage of and transfer the fraudulent input tax credit (ITC) worth 50.24 million rupees on false invoices for miscellaneous goods / services in Vadodara, Gujarat, they added.
An intellectual woman was also arrested, the people quoted above said.
So far, the DGGI has registered 793 cases and identified 2,802 entities involved. He has also sent a letter to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to take mandatory action for professional misconduct against the three CAs who have been arrested in Ludhiana and Hyderabad.
Eight people were arrested today in DGGI raids. Of these, four – Mahendrabhai Desai of M / s Sanjay Corporation, Rakesh Kumar Chavda of M / s Setal Enterprise, Mohd lshaq lsmail Ansari of M / s Lohiya Enterprise, and Jignesh Kumar R Patel – were arrested by their Ahmedabad unit. Two others, Parth Jain and Ranjan Kumar Saha, were also arrested in Bengaluru and Kolkata, respectively.
On Tuesday, searches and surveys were conducted in 32 cities: Bhubaneswar, Meerut, Bhopal, Jaipur, Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Siliguri, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Kanpur, Nagpur, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Coimbatore, Surat, Vadodara, Una, Rajkot, Kochi, Hosur, Gurugram, Pune, Ludhiana, Ranchi, Belagavi, Patna, Guwahati, Raipur and Jammu.
CGST and DGGI commissions recovered Rs 177.50 million in cash in these raids. Efforts are underway to stop some of the scammers who are on the run.
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