A company owned by the vicepresident of BJP’s Mumbai unit is facing investigation for evasion of taxes to the tune of over Rs 1 crore.Officials from the Pune Commissionerate of Service Tax department conducted raids at the Integrity Logistic Solution (ILS) office in Chandivali, in which BJP leader Mihir Kotecha is a director.Kotecha had contested the Assembly elections from Wadala but lost to Congress candidate Kalidas Kolambkar. He has earlier been president of BJP Yuva Morcha before being elected as vice-president of the party’s Mumbai unit.After the Service Tax department received information regarding evasion of taxes by ILS between April 2014 and March 2015, the raid was conducted by the Anti Evasion wing of the department on Friday. Officers checked various balance sheets and went through the hard disks of the company. The service tax department had received information that despite collecting service tax from their clients, ILS had not paid the taxes to the department. The Service Tax department is also probing whether the ILS had maintained two sets of invoice copies - one which they would submit to clients, which included the service tax amount and another which had no service tax added or a lesser amount, to evade taxes.When contacted by Mirror, Kotecha confirmed the raid and that the balance sheets were checked. “There has been a delay in the payment of tax and it is due to the fact that one of our employees in Pune siphoned off company funds. Our Pune division manager Vijay Gounder siphoned off Rs 3 crore from the company’s accounts, which were supposed to be paid as service tax and other duties to various departments. He also forged documents. When we came to know about it, we even filed a case against him with the Powai police station.” Gounder’s anticipatory bail was rejected by the Dindoshi court and he is presently on interim bail till the Bombay High Court hearing is concluded, he added. Service Tax Inspector Ajit Limaye refused to divulge any details.