Rs. An officer in Delhi pressed the GST refunds worth crores. For this purpose it has created huge fake companies.
Internet Desk: Kanche Chenu Meste.. Chandana, a GST official in Delhi, has been exposed. She simultaneously created hundreds of fake companies, formed a team of seven people including three lawyers and looted Rs.54 crores of government money. Recently, a scam came to light that shocked the officials as Delhi ACB stepped into the field.
Babita Sharma is working as a GST officer in Delhi. She was transferred to Ward 22 in the office a few years ago. Within a few days of this, more than 50 companies have applied to transfer GST from Ward 6 to 22. These were immediately approved. She approved 400 refunds to 96 wrongful organizations during 2021-2022. The value of these is Rs.35.51 crores. She approved a refund of only Rs.7 lakh in the first year. After that he gave his stamp of approval for the remaining amount as well. In fact, the applications for refunds were received late.. It is noteworthy that they were approved within three days.
The GST Vigilance Department was alerted by this incident and sent teams. As a result, the teams realized that a scam was going on in their office. The case was transferred to ACB.
Invoices worth Rs. 718 crores.
Officials have found that hundreds of companies have submitted invoices for Rs 718 crore, showing that they have done business on paper without any actual purchases. ACB found that the refunds were issued without any checks being made in this regard.
Although it was shown that 40 companies had supplied the goods in the first phase, records related to them were not found in the second phase. In respect of 15 companies, it was found that GST registrations were done without doing Aadhaar or spot verification. When Babita was transferred to Ward 22, it was concluded that 48 of the 53 companies that moved there from Ward 6 received a GST refund of Rs. 12.32 crores. It was concluded that the NOCs of the land owners of the offices of these organizations are also fake. These were created within a few days.
It is learned that the entire GST refund amount has been released in the names of three lawyers namely Rajat, Mukesh and Narender and their family members in different bank accounts. ACB has exposed 1,000 fake bank accounts belonging to these bogus companies. These three lawyers are running 23 companies with the same mail id and phone number. Among these also five companies have the same PAN number and email.
Manoj Goyal, who runs a fake company, and two other transporters Surjit Singh and Lalit Kumar have been arrested in this case. They created documents like fake waybills and consignment receipts for GST refunds.
