The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has carried out a major action against bribery in Mumbai. CBI has arrested CGST Audit-I Superintendent Ankit Aggarwal, posted at Air India Building, Nariman Point, the country’s financial capital Mumbai, red-handed while taking a bribe of Rs 5 lakh. The accused officer is accused of extorting lakhs of rupees from a private company by threatening to implicate it in a false tax case.
What is the whole matter?
The complainant in this case, who is the director of a private company, told in the complaint given to the CBI that Superintendent Ankit Aggarwal had audited his company on November 26, 2025. During the audit, Aggarwal threatened to issue a fake tax demand of Rs 98 lakh on the company and demanded a bribe of Rs 20 lakh to settle it.
After talks between both the parties regarding this matter, an amount of Rs 17 lakh was fixed for the bribe. The accused officer had asked for Rs 5 lakh as the first installment of bribe from the complainant director on Monday (December 22, 2025). On the other hand, CBI laid a trap and arrested the accused Ankit Aggarwal on the spot while accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh.
Unaccounted cash and assets found from home
While taking further action in this case, CBI raided Ankit Aggarwal’s residence and office in Mumbai. During this period many serious revelations were also made. CBI recovered cash worth Rs 18.30 lakh from the house of the accused officer. At the same time, during the search, documents of two big properties were also found, one worth Rs 40.315 lakh (April, 2025) and the other worth Rs 32.10 lakh (June, 2024), while the audit report of the company and other digital evidence related to the office of the accused have been seized. CBI is currently conducting a detailed investigation into the case and is trying to find out whether other departmental officers were also involved in this conspiracy.
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