{"id":75529,"date":"2026-04-22T22:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:16:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:16:04","slug":"karnataka-commercial-taxes-dept-busts-rs-410-crore-gst-fraud-network-arrests-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=75529","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka: Commercial Taxes Dept busts Rs 410 crore GST fraud network, arrests one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka: Commercial Taxes Dept busts Rs 410 crore GST fraud network, arrests one<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 22-4-2026<BR>PTI<BR>Bengaluru, Apr 22 (PTI) The Commercial Taxes Department on Wednesday said it has arrested a man involved in generating and routing fraudulent ITC across multiple states and has unearthed a GST fraud worth Rs 410 crore.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Commercial Taxes Department said its Enforcement Wing (south zone) arrested Mohammed Tauqeer (42) when he attempted to abscond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMohammed Tauqeer has been arrested for his active role in floating bogus firms and facilitating large-scale fake Input Tax Credit transactions. The accused was produced before the Special Court for Economic Offences here, which remanded him to judicial <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=72496\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>scharge tax liabilities through ineligible ITC instead of cash payments, causing a significant loss to the government exchequer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe financial magnitude attributable to this network is Rs 410 crore in fraudulent transactions involving wrongful ITC of Rs 102.5 crore,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the modus operandi adopted by the accused reflects a well-structured and evolving pattern, involving frequent creation and cancellation of GST registrations within short durations, continuous changes of mobile numbers and bank accounts, operation through multiple-layered entities, and functioning in isolated silos to evade detection.<\/p>\n<p>The accused are originally from Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, with Mohammed Tauqeer currently <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=72496\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka: Commercial Taxes Dept busts Rs 410 crore GST fraud network, arrests oneGSTDated:- 22-4-2026PTIBengaluru, Apr 22 (PTI) The Commercial Taxes Department on Wednesday said it has arrested a man involved in generating and routing fraudulent ITC a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}