The Goods and Service Tax (GST) Mazagon office has registered a case of cheating of around Rs 2.22 crore at the Byculla police station, after a person approached them online seeking a refund. In the complaint it has been said that on the basis of wrong documents, a refund of '2.22 crore was taken, and when the GST department checked the documents and the address written on it later, both were found to be fake. Department staff visited the address given in the documents, but no person of that name was found living at the place.

According to the police, on Tuesday, GST officer Yogesh Manal lodged a complaint that a person had cheated the GST department of '2,22,13,170 on the basis of wrong documents. According to the complaint, in the year 2019 between January 3 and January 24, a person named Shailesh Bhimrao Navnage had claimed the refund of '2,22,13,170.