Over Rs 1000 crore tax billing scam – accused Paresh Chauhan nabbed
January 01, 2020
Ahmedabad: The tax authorities have arrested Paresh N Chauhan, the main accused of over Rs 1000 crore VAT/SGST billing scam.
A tax official today said that Chahuna who had made at least 72 firms in his name for tax related frauds had done a scam in excess of Rs 900 crore in form of bogus billing and 100 crore tax evasion. These figures were based on the scrutiny of a part of documents recovered in the case. The overall figure might go up.
He said that Paresh was absconding and was arrested last evening. He had also approached court but did not get any respite.
He has been produced in local court for remand for further interrogation and investigation.
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