The state's Housing and Minority Welfare Minister has a lorry business. Investigators examining a ₹2,384-crore fake-invoice network found the lorry business. They sent a notice. The ministry's welfare mandate did not extend to the investigation.
Bengaluru's Commercial Tax Department Intelligence Wing, while unwinding a ₹2,384-crore network of 127 shell companies generating fraudulent GST invoices for goods that were never manufactured, sent notices to National Travels — a transport firm whose contracting relationships placed it squarely in the billing chain. National Travels is linked to B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, Karnataka's Housing and Minority Welfare Minister. The main accused, Salimulla Beig and Hussain Baig, were arrested on May 14–15 for running a fake Input Tax Credit operation that defrauded the exchequer of ₹594 crore. The minister's firm is being investigated for the role its lorries played in the invoicing network — lorries that, unlike the goods on the invoices, appear to have actually existed. Minister Zameer has not commented on the investigation's findings, which is consistent with the general communications posture of all 127 shell companies involved in this matter.