Delhi Police on Thursday arrested a 27-year-old accountant for generating fake invoices worth Rs 11 crore and fraudulently claiming nearly Rs 2 crore in GST refunds. The accused, identified as Abdul Razik alias Abdul Razzaq, originally from Bihar, was staying in Delhi's Batla House and worked for a Noida-based firm. Police recovered a mobile phone and multiple forged GST bills from his possession.
According to DCP (Cyber) Shavya Goyal, the fraud came to light after a company official lodged a complaint on August 2, alleging that Razik had misused the firm's GST ID and password. Using these credentials, he allegedly uploaded bogus invoices amounting to Rs 11 crore to secure fraudulent IT returns and GST refunds.
A case has been registered under various cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) including 319(2), 318(4), 336(3), 338, 340(2), 352, 351(2), 351(3), and 61(2) along with Section 66C of the IT Act relating to identity theft.
During questioning, Razik reportedly told investigators that he handled GST-related work at his company and was drawn into the scam by Abhinav Tyagi, whom he met during visits to the GST office. Tyagi, already arrested in a related case, allegedly promised Razik a 1% commission for bringing buyers interested in fake GST invoices.
Police said Razik would obtain forged invoices from Tyagi and sell them to "customers," keeping around Rs 1 lakh as personal commission while transferring the remaining proceeds to Tyagi. Authorities are now tracing the full chain of beneficiaries involved in the fake invoice racket and examining the movement of the fraudulently obtained GST refund money.
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