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₹1,500 cr. sent overseas in guise of import of a fake ‘customised’ software.
The Enforcement Directorate has arrested two persons for their alleged involvement in a trade-based money-laundering scam, in which ₹1,500 crore was sent overseas in the guise of import of a fake ‘customised’ software.
The arrested have been identified as Deepak Agarwal and Ayush Goyal. The agency has got three-day custody of Mr. Agarwal. The probe is based on an FIR registered by the Andhra Pradesh police against one Vaddi Mahesh and others, on a complaint from the Income-Tax Department.
The agency alleged that Mr. Mahesh, in collusion with others, had incorporated shell firms and companies in India and opened bank accounts in their names. Funds were received from various persons, including Mr. Agarwal, Mr. Goyal, Vikas Gupta and Vinit Goenka, and deposited in those bank accounts for further transfer to those of his shell companies.
2 arrested in Rs 1,500 cr fake customised software scam
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New Delhi, March 9 : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday said that it has arrested Deepak Agarwal and Ayush Goyal for their involvement in a trade-based money laundering scam in which funds to the tune of Rs 1,500 crore were sent outside India in the guise of import of fake customised software .
An ED official here said that the agency arrested Agarwal on February 22 this year while Goyal on February 27. Both the accused were sent to judicial custody.
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