Ghaziabad: The Directorate of Goods and Intelligence Tax Services, the Ghaziabad Regional Unit has broken the syndicate involved in creating and controlling fake companies and issuing bills by these fake companies without supplying goods or services for GST refund.
According to a press release by the Ministry of Finance, after developing proper intelligence, two office places dipped from a variety of burdensome documents / matters relating to more than 200 false companies restored, namely cellphones, digital signatures, debit cards, Pan cards, aadhaar cards , photos of people, rental agreements, laptops, pen drives, rubber stamps, office keys, SIM cards, checking books, and some ‘Kuccha’ records.
Furthermore, in-depth investigations are carried out which reveals that this network data is being compiled and used from the cloud.
After analysis of evidence and data, it was revealed that this network consisted of 275 fake companies that were only on paper.
These companies have issued a fake invoice that has a total value of Rs 3,189 Crore involving GST avoidance total RS 362 Crore.
One key person who plays an important role in a collection of individual identities for the creation of fake companies, namely Tinku Yadav was arrested earlier.
Based on the information provided by Tinku Yadav and analysis of IP addresses, the actual mastermind of the network is Vipin Kumar Gupta aka Nikku, and Yogesh Mittal has been arrested and arrested.
It has been studied that both Vipin Kumar Gupta and Yogesh Mittal are habit violators.
Both violators have been arrested by the Direvenue Intelligence Directorate (DRI) and the previous enforcement directorate (ED), said press release.