AHMEDABAD: The state goods and services tax (SGST) department on Monday arrested Sanjay Patel, who hails from Unjha, for his involvement in the recently unearthed fake billing scam. SGST officials said that Patel was involved in the scam that amounted to a tax evasion of Rs 6.31 crores.
On Friday the department officials had also arrested Hitendra Patel for his involvement in the same scam, involving tax evasion in trading of cumin. SGST officials said that Sanjay was involved in illicitly obtaining GST registrations in the name of daily wagers by paying them lump-sum amounts and obtaining their documents for address and identity-proof and putting them to illegal use. These registrations were used to generate fake GST bills.
Searches conducted by the SGST department led to surfacing of a number of incriminating documents and bill books of various companies. All have been seized by the SGST department officials. Sanjay was involved in making e-way bills worth Rs 109.9 crore, using these bill books of fake companies.