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GST - Gurgaon DGGI nabs two persons in fake invoice racket

Published: Nov 27, 2019

By TIOL News Service

NEW DELHI, NOV 27, 2019: The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), Gurugram Zonal Unit (GZU), Haryana has arrested Mr Deepak Mittal, resident of Mayur Vihar, New Delhi, and proprietor of M/s DK Enterprise and Mr Ankur Garg, resident of Hansi, district Hisar, Haryana, proprietor of M/s Garg Enterprises.

Both the persons were found involved in fake invoices racket and fraudulently passed/ availed Input Tax Credit amounting to Rs 141 Crores (approx.) through assistance of complex web chain of various entities.

During investigation it was found that Mr Deepak Mittal, an authorised dealer of ITC, have issued sale invoices of cigarettes directly/ indirectly (through Mr Ankur Garg) to various dummy/ non-existent trading firms thereby causing loss to exchequer by evasion of GST. These dummy/ non-existent trading firms further issued fake invoices to various export firms which have filed IGST refund claim on the basis of these fake invoices. It was discovered that no export of cigarettes took place and the IGST refund claim filed by these export firms was bogus and in many cases claim was rejected by the jurisdictional Centre/ State GST authorities.