GG News Bureau
Ahmedabad, 17th Oct. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday carried out searches across multiple cities in Gujarat in connection with a money laundering case tied to a GST fraud. The raids were conducted at about 23 premises in Rajkot, Junagadh, Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, and Veraval, following a case filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), according to official sources.
The case stems from an FIR lodged by the Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch, which initiated an investigation based on a complaint from the Central GST. The complaint alleged a scam involving shell companies set up to defraud the government through bogus input tax credits and fraudulent transactions.
Among the premises covered by the ED’s search operations were those linked to journalist Mahesh Langa of The Hindu, who, along with seven others, was arrested by the state police recently. Langa was detained after the Central GST detected suspicious activities involving bogus firms allegedly set up in the names of his wife and father using forged documents.
The initial investigation by the Crime Branch and Gujarat’s Economic Offences Wing led to raids at 14 locations across the state, including Ahmedabad, Junagadh, Surat, Kheda, and Bhavnagar. Authorities uncovered over 200 fraudulent firms operating in an organized manner across the country, engaged in claiming bogus input tax credits through the use of forged documents and identities, causing significant losses to the government exchequer.
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