The Central GST intelligence unit on Wednesday arrested a youth here on the charge of evading tax. The accused Santosh Kumar Gupta from Koelnagar allegedly evaded taxes worth around Rs 262 crore by fraudulently issuing invoices of input tax credit (ITC) without actual supply of goods. He was later produced before court.
Gupta set up shell business organisations and allegedly issued fake bills and invoices without any movement of goods taking place.Notably, a couple of days back, a vegetable seller of Rourkela fell prey to GST fraud as a notice of Rs 110-crore tax evasion was served to him.
Earlier, scamsters also targeted several students, housewives, owners of small eateries, labourers and auto-rickshaw drivers in a similar manner.