The state’s tax department’s anti-evasion wing arrested a woman chartered accountant (CA) on Monday and is now preparing to make a second arrest in a case involving two CAs in registration of shell firms to siphon off GST money. According to sources, Jaipur-based chartered accountant Paridhi Jain was arrested after a detailed interrogation, which led to corroboration of her involvement in embezzlement of GST money amounting to crores of rupees. “We had summoned her for interrogation after giving her abundant time to prove her innocence in the matter. But she failed to do so after which we arrested her,” said an official, adding that she was produced in the court for economic offences. She was sent to judicial custody.
This was the first instance of GST evasion in the state. “Now we are preparing to arrest her accomplice from Jodhpur Gaurav Maheshwari on production warrant, who is already under judicial custody,” the official said. Gaurav has seven cases pending investigation in different police stations of Jodhpur. He was picked up by police following a complaint by his driver who claimed that his documents were used without his knowledge by Gaurav for registration of a shell firm. He came to know about it when he received a GST notice from the department. According to the investigation, the duo registered over two dozen firms and embezzled GST amounting to Rs 17 crore approximately.
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