The director of the film ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ was arrested for being involved in a fraud of Rs 34 crore by submitting fake invoices. Vijay Gutte has been arrested by the Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax.
Reportedly, the director of VRG Digital Corporation and two other people are involved in trading and have claimed input credit by churning out fake invoices.
However, input credit is an option in GST which allows the taxpayers to claim credit for taxes paid on the purchase. This incident was brought to notice when an invoice was collected from the premises of Bombay Casting Talent Management Pvt. Ltd (BCTMPL) by Anupam Kher, who is to also essay the role of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the movie. As per reports, Veteran actor Anupam Kher is not involved in any way. Upon further investigation, it was realized that VRG had paid Rs 115 crore to BCTMPL through the vendor Horizon Outsource Solution Pvt Ltd (HOSPL). Although BCTMPL has provided services to the company, the invoices clearly stated that it was issued by Horizon Outsource Solution Pvt. Ltd. to VRG Digital Corporation.
Previously in May 2018, the GST officials had reportedly arrested the director of HOSPL, Amit Upadhyay, and Anwar Sayyed, who is also the proprietor. It was then brought to notice that the companies were involved in various circular transactions.
As per reports, the former was then arrested for collecting a service tax of Rs 47 crore and not depositing it with the government, that should have legally been done. If reports are to be believed, is also said to have received around Rs 79.38 crore through fake invoices with the help of evaded tax. As per reports, Vijay will be in judicial custody till August 14, 2018. In his remand application, the officials of the GST department have reportedly stated that the company VRG Digital Corporation procured only invoices from HOSPL without a receipt of goods or services with the sole intention of not paying the input tax credit.
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‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ is a political drama, based on the memoir written by Sanjaya Baru that goes by the same name, takes a look at Indian politics during the UPA government rule. As per reports, in Baru’s book, he states that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was completely under the control of the Congress President Sonia Gandhi. It also alleges that Singh was never fully in control of his cabinet and a significant amount of power was wielded by the then party president Sonia Gandhi. Anupam Kher has been highly appreciated for acing the look of his character. We can tell that the other actors’ looks too have hit the bulls-eye.