A cab driver from Mumbai and a Delhi couple allegedly orchestrated a widespread tax-linked financial fraud which is still being unravelled by multiple agencies — from the I-T department and GST authorities to the Intelligence Bureau and local police — in different states.
From a rundown office in West Delhi, the trio — Deepak Murjani, an ex-employee with a Delhi-based FMCG company, his wife Vinita, and an out-of-work Mumbai cabbie Yasin Sheikh —stole PAN data, forged Aadhaar identification, and then linked phone numbers, to create GST registrations for shell firms, exploiting a chink in the GST system. This loophole, which a few tax authorities had some understanding about, allows GST registrations to go through even if only first names on PAN and Aadhaar are identical and full names aren’t.
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