The State Goods and Service Tax (GST), Gujarat, in a joint operation with the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and Crime branch, on Sunday carried out searches at more than 205 premises owned by 115 firms and were also questioning 91 people in an alleged Rs 1,200 crore credit scam.
The search has been going on since Saturday morning and some officers of the GST were also being questioned by the search teams for their alleged involvement.
Sources revealed that the searches were going on in 14 districts simultaneously. These companies were involved in scrap metal, chemicals, and iron rods. These firms were creating fake bills that the scam was going on for the last six months in Ahmedabad, Surat, Bhavnagar, Vadodara, and search teams have apprehensions that without officers’ involvement such a large-scale scam would not have lasted for so long.
Earlier on October 22, the Gujarat ATS had exposed this bogus international racket and arrested four persons from the new Naroda area of Ahmedabad for issuing fake passports and visas to Canada aspirants.
These developments came amidst the election preparations for the upcoming Assembly elections, which are slated to be held in two phases on — December 1 and December 5 and counting will take place on December 8. Of the 182 seats in the Legislative Assembly, 89 will go to polls in the first phase and 93 in the second.
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