The government has caught the persons who are engaged in the GST frauds which consist of professionals such as chartered accountants CA and a company secretary this figure consolidated with 215 arrests.
In the last 2 days, 17 arrests are built in the last 2 days as the information provided through the finance ministry mentioned that the GST council Get to know about GST (Goods and Services Tax) council 1st to 43rd meeting updates and decisions taken by members. We have covered 1st meeting to last meeting decisions. Read more has booked nearly 2200 cases and has disclosed more than 6600 bogus entities from the identification number.
The council has also recovered more than Rs 700 cr through fraudsters. Through the council, the government has incorporated an information-based drive so to determine the fake ones who are evading the tax credits through furnishing the bogus invoices, it had suspended the campaign, only to resume it two months ago.
The government has tightened the rope by including the IT investigation and the action against the alleged malefactor of the scam.
The arrested ones involve the end beneficiaries which includes bogus entities operators who have a summons through the alleged fake ones, the majority of them were doing the operations of bogus invoices on the commission grounds.
71 have been said under the masterminds 81 are proprietors of the entities 36 directors MDs and CEOs of companies and 15 partners of companies out of 215 arrests.
“Use of data analytics, data sharing and AI has enabled the GST ecosystem and intelligence authorities to identify layer by-layer activities of these fake entities and pinpoint the fraudsters with precise input,” Mumbai has the largest number of arrest i.e 23.