Economic Offenses Wing (EOW) of Rajkot City Police Crime Branch on Saturday Journalist Mahesh Langa He was arrested in the GST fraud case and remanded for four days under investigation. This is a separate case being investigated by the crime branch of the Ahmedabad city police in which he was initially arrested.
This is the fifth case against Langa.
The EOW of the Rajkot city crime branch arrested him from Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati Central Jail on November 27 in a Goods and Services Tax (GST) evasion case filed by the superintendent of the anti-evasion section of the CGST department, officials said. .
Transit remand was taken to take them to Rajkot on Friday and then they were produced in the local court on Saturday. While the EOW sought his custody for 14 days, the court saw fit to give him four days of custody, which ends on Tuesday, officials said.
The case relates to alleged bogus billing among 15 alleged shell companies led by a firm named Parmar Enterprises, all of whom conspired to claim false Input Tax Credit (ITC) registered in Rajkot in June 2023.
Special Operations Group Police Inspector SM Jadeja, who is also in charge of the EOW, says, “Parmar Enterprises was established in June 2023 as a shell firm. A fake bill was prepared on the basis of a fake rent agreement. 14 other firms including DA Enterprise owned by Mahesh Langa have purchased fake bills from this firm. We have detained the accused for four days.
What is noteworthy is that 15 people including Langa have been arrested so far in this incident.
The Indian Express has learned that Parmar Enterprises allegedly generated bogus bills worth Rs.3.27 crore (Rs. 3,27,63,162), which were then bought by 14 other firms. About Rs 61.38 lakh was claimed by the false ITC through these bogus bills.
The police officer informed that DA Enterprises purchased 4 fake bills worth 47 lakhs from Parmar Enterprises. The fake ITC amount from these fake bills is Rs 8,50,788.
What are the cases against Langa?
The first case registered on October 7 is in this regard It is alleged that Langa was involved in running the benami firm Linked to a network of 220 shell companies allegedly involved in nationwide GST fraud, primarily investigated by the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI).
In a second case filed by the Gandhinagar police on October 22, Langa was named for alleged theft and possession of confidential documents of the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB).
The third case, according to Ahmedabad Police Commissioner Gyanendra Singh Malik, was filed on October 29 by the Ahmedabad City Police’s Criminal Investigation Branch (DCB) against the senior assistant editor of The Hindu newspaper for allegedly defrauding a businessman on October 28. Rs 28.68 lakhs
The fourth case, announced on October 29 by the Ahmedabad regional office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), said it had filed a money laundering case against Mahesh Langa and others and conducted a second set of search operations at 7 premises across Ahmedabad. , based on an FIR filed by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch in a GST fraud case on Sunday (October 27) in Gujarat’s Surat and Bhavnagar districts.
This is the fifth case against Mahesh Langa by the Rajkot Crime Branch through its Economic Offenses Wing.
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