The Finance Ministry has detected custom duty and service tax evasion of at least Rs 400 crore during the last quarter of Fiscal year 2012, i.e, January and March. The detection came after the Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence (DGCEI) and Directorate General of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) tracked over 2,300 dubious banking transactions, in a bid to curb revenue leakage. The DRI and DGCEI two leading financial intelligence agencies under the Revenue department of the Ministry.
An agency called Financial Intelligence Unit-India ( FIU) has been tasked with analysing and disseminating information relating to dubious exchanges, had sent 1,443 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) to DGCEI and 904 to DRI during the first three months of 2013.
After receiving those STRs, the DGCEI has detected tax evasion of at least Rs 50 crore and recovered Rs 28 crore. On the other hand, the DRI, detected Rs 350 crore being remitted through banking channels by various importers and exporters using bogus invoices and effected a recovery of Rs 1.16 crore as duties in these cases, sources said.
The DRI also detected possible diversion of duty-free imported goods of Rs 400 crore, acting on the intelligence following suspicious Cash Transaction Reports (CTRs). Both STRs and CTRs are transactions of Rs 10 lakh and above with some of them believed to be related to proceeds of crimes including drug trafficking and black money.
The two agencies were also looking into the cases of misuse of exemption notifications and undervaluation of imports involving evasion of customs duty of several hundred crores, the sources said. The officials have recovered cash of Rs 17 crore while following these cases
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