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As the mastermind is Ashraf Ibrahim Kalavadia, a resident of Surat. Kalavadia was arrested from a hotel in Mira-Bhayander on 12 March 2024. Investigation by the GST department in Pune has revealed a GST scam of Rs 8000 crore by creating 246 fake companies and wrongly taking input tax credit. The investigation of the fake company registered in the name of the auto driver has also reached Mumbai, Rajkot and Bhavnagar.
Pathan Enterprises has defrauded and evaded taxes worth Rs 20.75 crore to the government between September 2018 and March 2024. From Rs 5,000 crore 8000 crore fraud was done
Police have registered a case against Nitin Barge, Faisal Mewalal, Nizamuddin Khan, Amit Tej Bahadur Sinha, Rahul Baraiya, Kaushik Makwana, Jitendra Gohel.
Police have registered a case of criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery against eight people, including Surat’s alleged mastermind Ashraf Ibrahim Kalavadia (50) at Koregaon Park in Pune. 246 shell companies were set up in 13 states between September 2018 and March 2024. 8 thousand crore scam is alleged. Kalavadia is currently in judicial custody in Yerwada Central Jail. Seven Sagaritos are still at large.
Several cellphones, laptops, SIM cards, check books, debit cards and rubber stamps were recovered. Kalavadia admitted to opening several fake firms and bank accounts using forged documents for fake transactions to evade taxes. False claim was made to run a scrap material business. Helped in getting input tax credit without paying GST. He was earlier arrested by DGGI in Surat in 2022.
In October 2023, some suspicious transactions of a company named Pathan Enterprises located at Girni-Shewalwadi on Pune-Solapur Highway were detected. No such company exists at the place mentioned above or any other place.
A company is registered in the name of Pathan Shabbir Khan Anwar Khan in Bhavnagar, Gujarat. When the DGGI team investigated the matter further, Khan was also found to be an autorickshaw driver. On further questioning Khan about this, he was very surprised and said that no such company is registered in his name and he expressed complete ignorance on this matter.
The mobile numbers and e-mail addresses were thoroughly investigated. A person named Jeet Kukadia came who has an account in a bank in Rajkot. However, further investigation revealed that the dog was working as a private security guard. But it was found that Kukadia had opened the account for accused Kaushik Makwana and Jitendra Gohil. However, Kukadia himself never made any transaction from this account.
He was arrested under the Goods and Services Tax Act and produced in a Pune court.
Nizamuddin Khan of Mumbai used to provide SIM cards and KYC details to common people to open bank accounts. While Amit Singh was helping in creating fake companies and Rahul Baraiya was helping in selling these fake companies. (Google translation from Gujarati)
