An accountant from Jamnagar has been accused of scamming a factory owner by using the GST (Goods and Services Tax) number of a business that was shut down four years ago. The scam came to light after the Junagadh GST department issued a notice to the former owner of the factory.

Vishnu Pandya, a resident of Tirupati Park, Jamnagar, operated a brass parts factory which was closed in 2020.

Now working as a Pandit, Pandya was shocked upon receiving a notice from the GST department, following which he started the investigation of how the transactions from his GST number were made.

The search revealed that his former accountant Raju Marvadi had reactivated the closed GST number linked to Pandya’s factory, Kailash Metal, and opened a new account in the name of ‘Riddhi Siddhi Casting’. 

Marvadi secured a loan of ₹5 lakh, misusing the funds for multiple transactions and had shown business documents and transactions from 2020 to 2024 and had falsely claimed input tax credits amounting to approximately ₹5 crore.

Following which, Pandya filed a complaint against Marvadi. The police are probing the matter.

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