Vijay Gutte

The Accidental Prime Minister

fake invoices

VRG Digital Corporation

Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Intelligence officials have arrested, the director of the filmfor defrauding Rs 34 crore by submitting. Anupam Kher essays the role of Manmohan Singh in the film, which is slated to release in December 21.Officials said Gutte, the director of, and two other firms were involved in circular trading and had fraudulently claimed input credit with the help of bogus invoices. Input tax credit is an option in GST which allows taxpayers to claim credit for taxes paid on purchase.The officials collected an invoice which was raised by Kher from the premises of Bombay Casting Talent Management Pvt Ltd (BCTMPL), which is part of Bohra Bors Group Company, asking for initial fee payment as an evidence against Gutte. Kher is not involved in the case.The officials said from June 2017 to September 2017, VRG had paid Rs 115 crore to BCTMPL through their execution vendor Horizon Outsource Solution Pvt Ltd (HOSPL). Although BCTMPL has provided services to VRG, the invoices were issued by HOSPL to VRG. According to the agreement, VRG was to pay BCTMPL for services, directly or through HOSPL. Officials said the MoU clearly indicated that HOSPL was not a service provider, but just a route to make the payments. VRG and BCTMPL were undertaking circular transactions to show quantum of money invested in the film by BCTMPL.In May, GST officials had arrested the director of HOSPL, Amit Upadhyay, and the proprietor of BCS, Anwar Sayyed, in the case. They said some more companies were involved in the circular transactions. Upadhyay was arrested for collecting service tax of Rs 47 crore and not depositing with the government. He also allegedly received Rs 79.38 crore through fake GST invoices with the help of Sayed and evaded tax, officials said.Gutte has been remanded in judicial custody till August 14. In his remand application, the officials stated that VRG procured only invoices from HOSPL without receipt of goods or services with the sole intention to availing ineligible input tax credit.