Huge Rs561 Crore GST Fraud Discovered: Eight Persons Charged, One Arrested |

Pune: The Goods and Services Tax (GST) department registered a case of cheating and forgery against eight people, who forged GST invoices of 58 companies and cheated the government of Rs561.58 crore.
The GST officials also arrested a man from Hyderabad. He allegedly prepared these false and fabricated GST invoices.
GST officer Ravi Bhushanprasad Singh Kumar (34) lodged a complaint in this regard with the Bund Garden police on Friday evening. Senior Inspector Ravindra Gaikwad of Bund Garden police said, “The GST department arrested the man from Hyderabad in the case and the GST officials are investigating it. They have filed a formal FIR with us.”
According to police, the GST officers claimed that the tax evasion took place between 2021 and 2024.
Gaikwad said, “The GST officials checked the online tax invoice details of a company based in Talegaon Dhamdhere which was dealing in scrap metal. The GST officials became suspicious when they examined the online submissions of the Talegaon Dhamdhere based company and decided to check the GST invoices check.The report claimed that the company paid the GST after purchasing scrap from a company based in Hyderabad, but in reality it did not pay the GST.
He said, “The GST officials earlier this month decided to check the Hyderabad-based company by visiting it. The authorities have not found any company functioning from the address mentioned in the GST invoice. However, the GST receipts were linked to an Aadhaar card. The GST officers then decided to check the address mentioned on the Aadhaar card.”
Gaikwad said, “The officers found the man with the Aadhaar card operating from a house in Hyderabad. The GST officials questioned him. During interrogation, the man claimed that he had prepared the documents. fake GST invoices for the company Talegaon Dhamdhere. The GST officials then checked his laptop, phone and other electronic devices. These items revealed that he was raising fake VAT invoices for 58 different companies in Hyderabad and other southern cities.”