The alleged fraud was dedicated between November 2024 and April this 12 months, an official mentioned.
The 33-year-old laptop computer gross sales skilled, in his police criticism filed on October 31, alleged that the accused gained his and his buddy's belief and misused their consumer IDs and passwords for on-line GST submitting.
They then submitted faux payments within the identify of a number of shell (faux) corporations in opposition to the GST numbers of the victims. This fraudulent exercise created a false transaction quantity of Rs 75,48,42,087, thereby defrauding the complainant, his buddy and the federal government exchequer, the official mentioned.
Primarily based on the criticism, the police registered a case in opposition to the accused, a resident of Andheri in Mumbai, and his unidentified associates on prices of dishonest, forgery and different offences, he mentioned.
“This seems to be a classy cyber and monetary crime involving the misuse of confidential on-line credentials to file fraudulent GST claims. We're tracing the digital footprint and the monetary path of the shell corporations,” a cyber police official mentioned.
