{"id":76104,"date":"2026-07-06T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:01:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:01:03","slug":"forged-gst-bills-rural-bank-accounts-aided-india-myanmar-betel-nut-racket-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=76104","title":{"rendered":"Forged GST bills, rural bank accounts aided India-Myanmar betel nut racket: ED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forged GST bills, rural bank accounts aided India-Myanmar betel nut racket: ED<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 6-7-2026<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Jul 6 (PTI) The ED has found that an organised syndicate, which operated a Rs 1,500-crore betel nut smuggling ring along the India-Myanmar international border, allegedly used forged GST invoices and routed &#8220;illicit&#8221; funds through some rural bank accounts in Mizoram via a hawala network.<\/p>\n<p> \t The central agency said in a statement on Monday that its Guwahati zonal office unearthed the alleged modus operandi after it conducted multi-state searches at 20 premises in Assam, Mizoram, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh on July 3.<\/p>\n<p> \t The investigation pertains to a &#8220;large, organised syndicate&#8221; engaged in smuggling betel nu<\/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=73682\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p> Champhai grows none itself,&#8221; the ED said.<\/p>\n<p> \t Production data obtained from central and state government agencies established that Champhai, from where the bulk of the consignments were shown to originate, recorded zero domestic production of areca nut during the relevant years, it said.<\/p>\n<p> \t &#8220;This corroborates that the goods were of smuggled, foreign origin routed through the Indo-Myanmar border,&#8221; the ED said.<\/p>\n<p> \t The syndicate used &#8220;forged&#8221; GST invoices, &#8220;bogus&#8221; supplier and buyer firms and &#8220;false&#8221; transport papers.<\/p>\n<p> \t &#8220;The proceeds are then layered through buyers in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh who pay Silchar\/Assam hawala operators, who subsequently route the money mostly through Mizoram Rural Bank transit accounts that mask t<\/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=73682\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forged GST bills, rural bank accounts aided India-Myanmar betel nut racket: EDGSTDated:- 6-7-2026PTINew Delhi, Jul 6 (PTI) The ED has found that an organised syndicate, which operated a Rs 1,500-crore betel nut smuggling ring along the India-Myanmar in&#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-76104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76104","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=76104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}