Garlic merchant was doing cotton business on paper, tax evasion of 2.5 crores arrested

Central Excise GST Anti-Intelligence Team Ujjain raided a businessman connected with agricultural market for the second time for 15 days. On Thursday, a team of officials from Ujjain and Neemuch reached to check on Vishal Brothers in Mandi of Garlic merchant Vishal Jindal. Officers arrived with two vehicles at around 12 noon. Started investigation at Jindal’s godown/office which investigated till 5.30 pm. During this time a case of GST tax evasion of about two and a half crores rupees was revealed.

Traders have got the account of GST credit / passan (sale) in cotton (cotton) rather than in garlic trading. Earlier, on 12 February, the team took action at the populous businessman Babu Sindhi. Where GST tax evasion of more than two crore rupees was revealed.

Ujjain’s team reached Neemuch in the morning for action under the direction of Central Excise GST Ujjain Additional Commissioner Mahavir Prasad Meena and Assistant Commissioner Ajay Khare. Tied the red cloth on the number plate and after wandering in the city for some time, called the officials of Neemuch after informing and reached Mandi. Searched for warehouse of Vishal Brothers, firm of garlic merchant. Checked the entries in the laptop with matching firm documents. Documents were found in the purchase and purchase of cotton (cotton) with garlic. More than 265 quintal cotton was reported to be stock, but no stock was found on the spot. The team made a panchnama and seized three registers, one laptop from the spot.

Cotton working since 2017- According to the team, Vishal Jindal deals with the purchase of cotton with garlic in the name of Vishal Brothers from April-2017 from other states including Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra. GST came into force from July-2017. In such a situation, the scope of investigation will not be from April but from July-2017. If we knew about this from the traders of Mandi, no one knows that Vishal Jindal sells and sells cotton.

52 crore so far The trading

team of the firm had brought the record of the firm from July-2017. More than 52 crore turnovers have been revealed so far. Which has been limited to papers. The firm operator used to draw credit passes on bogus bills. A preliminary investigation has revealed a GST tax evasion of around Rs 2.5 crore. It has been said that all purchases and sales take place outside MP. Even a place has been told to buy more and sell less.

Paper used to be traded since 2017, stock of 265 quintal cotton in the document, nothing on the market, the team had been keeping an online entry for 8 months, the department was tracking the sale and sale of Vishal Brothers for about 8 months. During this time, information was also collected from online entry and market of horse-trading. After this, the team reached for action under the direction of Additional Commissioner Meena. Senior officials continued to seek information from Ujjain. Superintendent Mayank Shekhar Pandey Ujjain, Superintendent Jasram Meena Neemuch led the team. Inspectors Nagendra Pratap Sikarwar, Shivam Sharma, Rishabh Srivastava included. Officers of the team who examined the documents at the warehouse of mandi businessman Jindal.

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