DGGI Arrests 24-Year-Old Businessman at Bengaluru Airport in Fake ITC Racket Worth 419 Crore

On Tuesday, September 16, 2025, the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), Bengaluru Unit, arrested a 24-year-old businessman alleged to have fraudulently claimed Input Tax Credit (ITC) worth Rs. 400 crore.

The accused businessman is recognised as Mohammed Kamran, who lives in Bannimantap Layout, Mysuru, and was caught at Kempegowda International Airport after coming from Mumbai. Officials took away six mobile phones and a laptop from him.

Police are searching for Kamran’s father, Akram Pasha. Both he and Kamran ran away from Mysuru after DGGI officers conducted a raid on their houses on September 10. The complaint has been filed against them at Narasimharaja Police Station in Mysuru. In the FIR, the names of six people have been registered, including Pasha, Kamran, Pasha’s wife, Farzan Banu, and daughter, Firdous Bhanu.

In relation to the fraud, raids were conducted across thirteen premises, including three in Bengaluru and ten in Mysuru, in houses, offices, and warehouses. These operations led to the revelation of a convoluted network of interlinked units accused of fraudulently claiming input tax credit (ITC).

Akram Pasha and Kamran run the ‘AK Steels’ and ‘MK Traders’ businesses, respectively, at Bannimantap, and they contract in steel materials and scrap items. Both of them are also alleged to have stopped the DGGI personnel from performing their duties.

Firdous Bhanu ran away from the house at the time when the raid was conducted in her house. She also took away the hard disc, which included the CCTV footage of the raid.

Sources indicated that Kamran and his father were involved in making fake bills. The 18% GST on these fake bills came to about Rs. 20 crore. The case was uncovered through IP address tracking, which showed a network of people creating and using fake bills without any real goods or services being exchanged. Further investigation revealed fake transactions worth over Rs. 419 crore in wrongly claimed tax credit and Rs. 469 crore in fake tax credit passed on to others.