Frequently changing phone numbers, using high-end luxury cars, including Maseratis and BMWs to zip through state borders during the day, and then checking into upmarket hotels with fake identities in the evenings — that was part of the modus operandi of the alleged kingpins behind an elaborate three-tier tax evasion plot who operated in the Delhi-Noida-Lucknow belt without being detected by authorities for well over six months.
The plot finally unravelled on account of some rather innocuous applications: FASTag text messages generated on crossing toll booths and one-time passwords (OTPs) from food delivery apps like Zomato and Swiggy. These trackers were used by law-enforcement officers to triangulate the locations of the suspected players behind what has now turned out to be one of the biggest evasion rackets unearthed under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime.
Source: The Indian Express
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