DGGI, GST officers arrests 104 persons in fake invoice case

NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) and the CGST Commissionerates have arrested 104 persons in three weeks in its drive against fake GST invoices that were used to illegally avail or pass on input tax credit, sources said. On Friday, the authorities arrested eight fraudsters, booked 65 cases and unearthed 114 fake entities.

In this nationwide drive, the GST officers have so far booked 1,161 cases against 3,479 fake GSTIN entities.

DGGI sources said that during the drive, searches and surveys were conducted in more than 38 cities/metros by now, namely, in Meerut, Bhopal, Jaipur, Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bhubaneshwar, Siliguri, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Kolkata, Kanpur, Nagpur, Chennai, Mumbai, Visakhapatnam, Coimbatore, Surat, Vadodara, Una, Rajkot, Kochi, Gurugram, Pune, Ludhiana, Ranchi, Belagavi, Patna, Guwahati, Raipur, Jammu, Durgapur, Hosur, Bhilai, Jodhpur, Unnao, Indore, and Thane.

Sources said further investigations in these cases are in progress to unravel the network and multiple chains of fake invoices' benefactors and, also, to ascertain the exact amount of tax evasion and usurpation by these fake entities and fraudsters.