Director Vijay Gutte’s brother, Sunil, was arrested by the director general of GST Intelligence, Bombay on 13th November in a Rs. 520 crore fake invoice scam. Vijay himself had been arrested in a similar tax invoice fraud of Rs. 34 crore in 2018. Vijay and Sunil are the sons of Maharashtra MLA Ratnakar Gutte. Vijay had directed The Accidental Prime Minister.
Vijendra Ranka, the business associate of Sunil Gutte, who is the managing director of Sunil Hi-Tech, has also been arrested for availing input tax credit (ITC) worth crores fraudulently. Both, Sunil and Vijendra, have been booked under Section 69 (1) of the Central Goods and Services Act, 2017, and have been remanded to judicial custody.