Ludhiana: GST fraud using city man’s identity uncovered, probe on
1 month, 1 week ago

Ludhiana: GST fraud using city man’s identity uncovered, probe on

Hindustan Times  

Fraudsters misused the identity of a 24-year-old Ludhiana resident to obtain a GST number and open a firm, facilitating transactions worth crores of rupees. Victim Anurag Singh, a resident of Shanker Colony, Bhamian Kalan, said he was stunned to receive an income tax notice via email on November 25 regarding a business he never started, demanding explanations for transactions worth crores of rupees. He said the income tax notice mentioned that he had started a business in partnership with a woman named Palwinder Kaur between 2022 and 2023, with transactions worth crores linked to the firm. Inspector Kulbir Singh, station house officer at the Jamalpur police station, stated that an FIR was registered based on Anurag’s complaint and supporting documents provided by the income tax department.

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Ludhiana: 3 travel agents booked for fraud
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Ludhiana: 3 travel agents booked for fraud

Hindustan Times  

The Ludhiana police have booked three travel agents for allegedly duping people on the pretext of sending them abroad. In the first case, the Sadar police booked a couple for duping a neighbour of ₹7 lakh on the pretext of getting her son settled abroad. Complainant Baljeet Kaur, a resident of Guru Nanak Colony, said her son Navdeep Singh wanted …

Ludhiana: Posing as cops, robbers take away ₹16 lakh from city man
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Ludhiana: Posing as cops, robbers take away ₹16 lakh from city man

Hindustan Times  

A Delhi resident his six unidentified accomplices allegedly posed as police personnel and robbed a city resident of ₹16 lakh in a hotel near Amar Shaheed Sukhdev Thapar Inter State Bus Terminal. The victim, Amarjeet Singh, 26, of Jain Colony, Rahon Road, later realised that the Delhi resident, Amit Kumar, was part of the conspiracy when he fled with imposters. …

Ludhiana cop loses ₹4.6L after opening dubious link sent by swindlers
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Ludhiana cop loses ₹4.6L after opening dubious link sent by swindlers

Hindustan Times  

An assistant sub-inspector from the Ludhiana Police Commissionerate fell victim to cybercriminals, losing 4.63 lakh from his two bank accounts. After failing to contact the customer care despite repeated attempts, he visited the nearest bank branch, where he discovered unauthorised transactions – including ₹32,000 from his savings account, ₹1.31 lakh, ₹1.99 lakh, and ₹99,000 from his overdraft limit account. The …

Ludhiana: Khanna resident loses ₹1 lakh to cyber fraudsters
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ludhiana: Khanna resident loses ₹1 lakh to cyber fraudsters

Hindustan Times  

Cyber fraudsters have stolen over ₹1 lakh from the bank account of a Khanna resident man. The Cyber Crime police station of Khanna, Ludhiana, lodged an FIR against unidentified accused and initiated an investigation. The Cyber Crime police station of Khanna lodged an FIR against unidentified accused and initiated an investigation. Inspector Gurpartap Singh, station house officer at the Khanna …

In Ludhiana, gang of fraudsters busted, 10 held
2 months, 4 weeks ago

In Ludhiana, gang of fraudsters busted, 10 held

Hindustan Times  

The Dugri police on Friday arrested 10 members of a gang for allegedly duping a number of people on the pretext of solving their issues through “black magic”. The police suspect that the accused procured the mobile connections using fake identification proofs. Sub-Inspector Hamraj Singh, SHO, Dugri police station, said the accused, who were residing in Phullanwal village, came up …

Ludhiana resident loses ₹3.92 lakh to credit card fraud, case registered
3 months, 1 week ago

Ludhiana resident loses ₹3.92 lakh to credit card fraud, case registered

Hindustan Times  

A city resident fell victim to a credit card scam and lost ₹3.92 lakh, officials said. The victim, Atul Gupta of Greater Kailash, Hambran Road, Ludhiana, filed a complaint at the cyber crime police station, following which a case was registered against the unidentified accused under sections 319 and 318 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The accused convinced the victim …

Job Scam Alert: UP Man Accepts 'Offer Letter' on WhatsApp, Faces Rs 250 Crore GST Bill Now
4 months ago

Job Scam Alert: UP Man Accepts 'Offer Letter' on WhatsApp, Faces Rs 250 Crore GST Bill Now

News 18  

In a shocking case of job fraud from Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, a man named Ashwani Kumar received a job offer via WhatsApp that led to a massive Rs 250 crore GST bill. The scam began when Kumar was asked to provide his Aadhaar card, PAN card, and other personal documents, along with a registration fee of Rs 1,750, to secure …

Gurugram man in Australia gets GST evasion notice, finds shell firm in his name
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Gurugram man in Australia gets GST evasion notice, finds shell firm in his name

Hindustan Times  

A 25-year-old man from Gurugram, who has been living in Australia since 2018, received a show-cause notice from the Income Tax department for GST evasion on March 31. The notice, sent to Divyrup Singh Mann via email, revealed financial transactions worth over ₹133 crores, leading to the discovery of a shell company fraudulently operating under his name in Delhi, police …

Ex Telangana chief secretary booked in GST scam
5 months, 1 week ago

Ex Telangana chief secretary booked in GST scam

Hindustan Times  

The Hyderabad Central Crime police registered a case against former Telangana chief secretary Somesh Kumar and two senior officials of the state commercial taxes department in connection with an alleged ₹1,000 crore Goods and Services Tax scam. Along with Somesh Kumar, additional commissioner S V Kasi Visweshara Rao and deputy commissioner A Siva Rama Prasad was named in the FIR, …

Wave of financial fraud cases hits Chandigarh
6 months, 1 week ago

Wave of financial fraud cases hits Chandigarh

Hindustan Times  

The city has recorded a spate of financial fraud cases recently, with multiple FIRs being filed across various police stations. Ravi Kumar from Maloya Colony complained that Ashish, Vivek, Vikram and Sumit Chauhan took money from him by falsely promising him a job as a peon in the Chandigarh municipal corporation. Praween Kumar, chief manager at Indian Bank, Sector 17-B, …

Fraudsters posing as crime branch officials dupe Ludhiana lawyer of ₹12 lakh
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Fraudsters posing as crime branch officials dupe Ludhiana lawyer of ₹12 lakh

Hindustan Times  

The fraudsters impersonating officials of the Mumbai crime branch allegedly duped a city-based lawyer of over ₹12 lakh. The Ludhiana-based lawyer alleged that the accused threatened to implicate him in a peddling case and demanded ₹ 12.11 lakh for not registering a case against him After he realised he had been duped, he filed a complaint with the police. The …

Irregularities of Rs 1,170 crore unearthed in scrap trade
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Irregularities of Rs 1,170 crore unearthed in scrap trade

New Indian Express  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The GST department has unearthed irregularities committed through fake billing to the tune of Rs 1,170 crore. The drive ‘Operation Palm Tree’ on 180 scrap business dealers detected GST evasion of Rs 209 crore. The inspections were started on Thursday early morning at 5 am with 300 GST department officials taking part in it. During the inspections, it was …

State GST department unearths fake billing racket linked to metal scrap trade; ₹1,170 crore worth of tax evasion detected
7 months, 2 weeks ago

State GST department unearths fake billing racket linked to metal scrap trade; ₹1,170 crore worth of tax evasion detected

The Hindu  

The State Goods and Services Tax department has unearthed massive tax evasion in the metal scrap trade sector where fake GST invoices were created to illegally claim input tax credit. A preliminary assessment pegged the fraudulent transactions at ₹1,170 crore, causing tax loss of ₹209 crore, the State GST Department said on Thursday. The tax evasion cartels operate by creating …

Detected GST evasion of ₹57,000 crore since April 2020: Finance ministry
1 year, 2 months ago

Detected GST evasion of ₹57,000 crore since April 2020: Finance ministry

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of GST Intelligence has detected Goods and Services Tax evasion of ₹57,000 crore from April 2020 to September 2023 involving over 6,000 fake instances of input tax credit claims leading to the arrest of 500 people, a finance ministry statement said on Wednesday. Detected GST evasion of ₹ 57,000 crore since April 2020: finance ministry …

UP labourer gets GST notice on 'Rs 1.36 crore turnover', case registered in Noida
1 year, 5 months ago

UP labourer gets GST notice on 'Rs 1.36 crore turnover', case registered in Noida

India Today  

The Gautam Buddha Nagar Police filed a case following a complaint from a laborer in Bulandshahr who claimed that he had received a GST notice suggesting that his businesses had generated a turnover of Rs 1.36 crore in 2022-23 fiscal. The labourer, Devendra Kumar, 22, a resident of Udaygarhi Bangar under Naraura police station in Uttar Pradesh, also stated that …

GST fraud of ₹175 cr. unearthed, mastermind nabbed at Bengaluru airport
1 year, 6 months ago

GST fraud of ₹175 cr. unearthed, mastermind nabbed at Bengaluru airport

The Hindu  

Directorate-General of GST Intelligence, Chennai Zonal Unit, has busted a fake Input Tax Credit racket running into ₹175 crore involving 59 companies. A 34-year-old resident from Chepauk, the mastermind behind the scam, was nabbed at the Bengaluru airport during his attempt to flee the country and subsequently arrested, according to a statement from DGGI, the apex intelligence and investigative agency …

IDs of many Indore residents used in GST fraud, say police
2 years, 7 months ago

IDs of many Indore residents used in GST fraud, say police

Hindustan Times  

The personal information, including identity documents, of a large number of Indore residents may have been obtained by three Gujarat residents accused of a ₹700 crore Goods and Services Tax fraud, police officials in Madhya Pradesh have said. “The cyber cell officials suspected that data of 80% of Indore’s population has been compromised as they used electricity bills of common …

Retired bank manager loses ₹12.25 lakh to cyber fraudster in Gurugram, probe on
3 years ago

Retired bank manager loses ₹12.25 lakh to cyber fraudster in Gurugram, probe on

Hindustan Times  

Police booked an unidentified man on Thursday evening for allegedly impersonating as an employee of the telecom company and duping a retired senior bank manager in Gurugram of ₹12.25 lakh on December 13 last year, officials said on Friday. An FIR was registered against the suspect under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act at the cybercrime …

₹347 crore GST billing scam unearthed in Delhi
3 years ago

₹347 crore GST billing scam unearthed in Delhi

The Hindu  

The GST Department of the Delhi government on Saturday unearthed a ₹347 crore fake GST billing scam spread across 11 firms. “This is the first arrest by the Delhi GST Department and we hope that it sends a strong signal to tax evaders,” said Prince Dhawan, Special Commissioner of the Delhi GST Department. “The proprietor of Ms. Super Steel India …

Mobile app fraud: Uttarakhand Police identify two Chinese accused
3 years, 6 months ago

Mobile app fraud: Uttarakhand Police identify two Chinese accused

Hindustan Times  

The Uttarakhand Police’s Special Task Force has identified two Chinese citizens among the accused in the alleged mobile application fraud and crypto-currency-based money laundering racket. Cyber security concept hand protection network with lock icon and virtual screens Space put message Blue tone Additional director general Abhinav Kumar on Friday said the two have been identified on the basis of “technical …

2 more arrested in ₹484 crore GST billing scam in Ludhiana
3 years, 9 months ago

2 more arrested in ₹484 crore GST billing scam in Ludhiana

Hindustan Times  

Two more persons were arrested on Thursday in the ₹484 crore Goods and Services Tax billing scam that was unearthed in Ludhiana recently. 2 more arrested in ₹ 484 crore GST billing scam in Ludhiana The accused were identified as Gurtej Singh and Sagar, proprietors of two of the 19 firms involved in the fake invoicing racket run by Baljinder …

GST officers bust network of 46 fake firms used to fraudulently claim Rs 82 crore input tax credit
3 years, 11 months ago

GST officers bust network of 46 fake firms used to fraudulently claim Rs 82 crore input tax credit

India TV News  

GST officers have busted a network of 46 fake firms which used to generate fake invoices and fraudulently avail input tax credit worth Rs 82.23 crore, the finance ministry said on Tuesday. Through the use of extensive data analytics, officers of Delhi East GST were able to identify and unravel a network of 46 fake firms which were operating since …

GST transactions worth Rs 1 lakh crore being probed
4 years, 1 month ago

GST transactions worth Rs 1 lakh crore being probed

Hindustan Times  

The Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management, which mines Goods and Services Tax data to expose tax evaders, has compiled a list of over 12,900 business entities, including some big companies and export firms suspected to have availed of input tax credit through fake invoices worth over Rs 1 lakh crore since July 1, 2017, when the new indirect …

Jharkhand man chased for Rs 3.5cr GST fraud turns out to be a daily wage worker
4 years, 1 month ago

Jharkhand man chased for Rs 3.5cr GST fraud turns out to be a daily wage worker

Hindustan Times  

A daily wage labourer earning Rs 198 per day under the rural jobs guarantee scheme or MGNREGS was in shock when a police team reached his thatched house in Raipahari village under Mosaboni block of East Singhbhum district in Jharkhand on Thursday to arrest him for alleged non-payment of Rs 3.50 crore in goods and services tax. 48-year-old Ladun Murmu, …

GST fraud worth Rs 138 crore unearthed in Odisha, 4 arrested
5 years, 2 months ago

GST fraud worth Rs 138 crore unearthed in Odisha, 4 arrested

India TV News  

Tax authorities in Odisha on Friday claimed to have unearthed a Rs 138-crore GST fraud and arrested at least four persons for being part of a racket that created fictitious firms and fake invoices. Investigations revealed that between August 2018 and September 2019, the fictitious firms used fake invoices and made purchases of over Rs 603 crore and sale of …

GST authorities arrest 2 for fraudulently availing ₹127 cr refund
5 years, 3 months ago

GST authorities arrest 2 for fraudulently availing ₹127 cr refund

Live Mint  

Haryana GST authorities have arrested two persons for generating fake invoices and fraudulently availing input tax credit totalling ₹127 crore. Gulshan Dhingra and Sanjay Dhingra, both residents of Delhi, were arrested on October 7 under various sections of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 for "causing loss to exchequer by evasion of GST", the finance ministry said in …

Two cheat govt of Rs 700-crore through fake GST invoices, held
5 years, 3 months ago

Two cheat govt of Rs 700-crore through fake GST invoices, held

India Today  

A racket of generating fake Goods and Services Tax invoices for fraudulently claiming the input tax credit on non-supplied goods was busted in Pune with the arrest of two persons, officials said on Sunday. The preventive wing of the Central Goods & Services Tax, Pune, claimed that two city-based firms allegedly indulging in this malpractice were busted. The two firms …

GST officials detect tax fraud of Rs 224 cr by 8 companies
5 years, 9 months ago

GST officials detect tax fraud of Rs 224 cr by 8 companies

India TV News  

Officials of the Central GST have unearthed an alleged tax fraud of Rs 224 crore by a group of eight companies, which generated fake invoices worth Rs 1,289 crore. A key suspect involved in the racket has been arrested and Rs 19.75 crore was recovered from him, a press release from the Hyderabad Central GST Commissionerate said Tuesday night. The …

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