Police Arrests Gang of Multi-Crore Export Licenses Scam

Faridabad police arrested ten people on Friday for allegedly being involved in a multi-crore scam. According to the police, the accused used a forged digital signature certificate (DSC) of the director of Shahi Exports Pvt Ltd to transfer 154 duty licenses worth Rs 27.61 crore that the company had received as a rebate for exports and trade to a bogus company set up in his name.

Harish Ahuja, the firm’s managing director, is actor Sonam Kapoor’s father-in-law, according to a police statement.

According to the cops, the investigation discovered that the accused used to check the import export code (IEC) of companies and their records to determine the number of licenses available in their account.

According to Sube Singh, spokesperson for the Faridabad police, the accused used to forge documents in the name of the company’s director or proprietor and then use the documents to create a digital signature certificate (DSC) by conducting a video shoot with one of their accomplices.

Sube Singh said, “Using this fake DSC, they used to transfer the licenses to their bogus company. The accused used a similar modus operandi and created a fake DSC of Harshit Ahuja, managing director of Shahi Exports Pvt Ltd. The accused impersonated as Ahuja and used a fake DSC to transfer 154 licenses worth Rs 27.61 crore from the complainant company into another fake account created for this purpose.”

According to police, after the scam was reported, the account where the licenses were transferred was frozen.

According to the police, these licenses are given to companies as a rebate by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Government of India, in exchange for their share of export. On July 26, 2021, a FIR was registered at Sector 31 police station in Faridabad under Section 420 of the IPC and Sections 66 C and 66 D of the IT Act after the complainant filed a police complaint. An SIT was formed to investigate the case.

Manoj Rana, Manish Kumar alias Monu, Praveen Kumar alias Sonu, Manish Kumar Moga, Ganesh Chalvadi, Bhushan Kishan Thakur, Rahul Sawant, Santosh Waghmare, Suresh Kumar Jain, and Lalit Kumar are among the ten arrested.

So far, the police have recovered six mobile phones, two laptop computers, and Rs 20,000 in cash. Cops said the accused admitted to committing similar frauds with other companies, the specifics of which are being investigated.

Source: The India Express