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Five people have been booked for allegedly being involved in a fake GST invoice racket worth Rs 3,000-crore, police said on Saturday. The case was registered on the complaint of Enforcement Directorate assistant director Suraj Kumar Yadav.
The Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has busted an alleged GST fraud cartel operating through shell companies and fake invoicing networks, arresting six individuals involved in swindling ₹128 crore, an official said on Saturday (May 16, 2026).
The Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Commissionerate, Ludhiana, has unearthed a fake GST invoicing racket amounting to ₹311 crore in the iron and steel manufacturing sector.
In one of its biggest crackdowns this year, the Ahmedabad zonal unit of the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) unearthed a sprawling fake GST invoicing racket worth nearly Rs. 800 crore and arrested four key conspirators across three separate cases.
A Jamnagar-based chartered accountant was booked for his alleged involvement in running a bogus billing racket of ₹560 crore involving fraudulent Input Tax Credit (ITC) claims of ₹112 crore through 14 non-genuine taxpayer firms, the Gujarat State Goods and Services Tax (SGST) Department on Thursday said.
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh: Two members of a gang, allegedly claiming to be officials collecting GST, were arrested for extorting money from truck drivers near the Uttarakhand border in Bareilly district, police said on Saturday.
The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) in Bengaluru has uncovered a massive GST fraud amounting to Rs 3,200 crore and arrested two people in connection with the case.
Operation Palm Tree, carried out simultaneously in seven districts using over 200 tax officials, has reportedly unearthed fake invoices worth nearly Rs. 1,000 crore in the illegal scrap market. A top tax official said that input tax credit (ITC) of nearly Rs. 200 crore could have been illegally pocketed by unscrupulous traders using such fake invoices.
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A fake Goods and Services Tax (GST) invoice racket, which was used to fraudulently claim a GST input tax credit…