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The State Crime Branch of Haryana Police has succeeded in solving a case of organized crime in which black money was being sent abroad illegally by the accused by creating fake companies. Investigation revealed that about Rs 700 crore had been illegally sent by the accused to the accounts of foreign companies. So far seven accused have been arrested in this case while a charge sheet has been filed in the court against five other accused.
What was the matter-
Haryana Police received a complaint in this regard on 18 March 2024. Taking cognizance of the complaint received, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was constituted under the chairmanship of Additional Director General of Police, State Crime Branch and Deputy Commissioner of Police Gurugram Nitish Aggarwal as per the directions of Haryana Director General of Police Shri Shatrujeet Kapoor.
During the investigation, it was found that the accused got the companies registered in the name of dummy directors in an organised manner. The bank accounts of the directors of these companies were opened in connivance with the bank employees through personal and eKYC and they operated those accounts themselves by keeping the ATM cards, net banking passwords, registered mobile SIMs of those accounts with themselves.
The companies formed on the basis of fake documents in the name of dummy directors showed business with foreign companies and imported and exported goods from abroad at the ports of Gujarat and Mumbai. During this, the Indian currency was sent abroad by showing the price of the goods in the invoice bill to be many times more than the market price and illegally charged a hefty commission per dollar.
The accused used to show the business premises of the companies, bank records, ROC & CGST records and import-export related documents differently so that they could not be caught by the departments like Director of Revenue Intelligence, Customs Department, Enforcement Directorate and Central GST etc.
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Money was transferred to the accounts of the accused companies by showing fake sales/purchases from the accounts of other companies and the money was transferred from the major accounts of these companies to the account of the foreign company in dollars by the accused.
The accused used to rent goods from foreign companies and show that they had purchased them in the documents and showed import of the goods and export of the same goods after some time. The payment for the goods shown as imported was sent to the accounts of the foreign company but the payment for the exported goods did not come back to the account of the indigenous company.
During the investigation, it was found that the accused got the companies registered in the name of dummy directors in an organised manner. The bank accounts of the directors of these companies were opened in connivance with the bank employees through personal and eKYC and they operated those accounts themselves by keeping the ATM cards, net banking passwords, registered mobile SIMs of those accounts with themselves.
In the investigation, 3 accused identified as residents of Delhi while the others are from Dehradun, Jhajjar, Sonipat and Faridabad.
A charge sheet has been filed in the court against 5 accused in the case on the basis of complete evidence. During the investigation, a large number of fake documents of companies, about 26 mobile phones, laptops, seals of companies etc. have been recovered from the accused. Apart from this case, other cases of murder, serious injury etc. are also registered against one of the arrested accused. The case is being investigated thoroughly by the Special Investigation Team under the supervision of senior officials.