In a major action on Friday, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau registered two cases in Mohali against 12 top officials of Excise and Taxation Department and four businessmen. Punjab Vigilance Bureau Chief Director-cum-ADGP BK Uppal said that some officers of the state's Excise and Taxation Department were helping them in collusion with the traders and tax evasion. In this way, they were defrauding the government funds with the traders. They also assisted their trucks in crossing the border without a crossing.

He said that in a case of Excise and Taxation, Detc Simran Brar, Sattpal Multani ETO Faridkot, Kalicharan ETO Mobile Wing Shambhu, Ved Prakash Jakhar ETO Fazilka, Varun Nagpal ETO Muktsar, Ravindanan ETO Fazilka, Pyara Singh ETO Moga and Vijay Kumar Parashar resident Adarsh Colony Khanna district includes Ludhiana.

BK Uppal said that Vigilance had received information that the owner of Sadhu Transport commits tax evasion along with the officers and employees of Somnath Mehakman. Investigation revealed that millions of rupees are being bribed to take and bring goods from fake bills in Punjab and outside it, for not checking those vehicles. Somnath's scribe Shiv Kumar and Pawan Kumar are involved in this work. Pawan Kumar has also worked as a driver with some ETOs. Uppal said that Somnath used to bribe lakhs of rupees every month to officers and employees posted in Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Patiala and Shambhu. Many times expensive foreign cigarettes were carried in the car, but the bills were shown in cosmetic. They used to live in each other's contact through the mobile while the trucks crossed the border.

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