ICICI Bank Managing Director and Chief Executive Chanda Kochhar and her Axis Bank counterpart Shikha Sharma have been summoned by the SFIO in connection with the scam at PNB
The officials were in the office for over two hours and are understood to have been asked about their business with firms like Choksi's Gitanjali Gems and also Modi
Markets fall most in the month; Sensex drops 743 points from day's high
Investigators had not yet recovered all the papers and loan guarantees allegedly issued by rogue employees of the bank
Jaitley expressed hope that going forward the bank's market capitalisation would improve
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case against Nirav Modi and others on the basis of a CBI FIR
ICICI Bank is believed to have extended a loan of Rs 10 billion and Axis Bank Rs 7 billion last year to Mehul Choksi's Gitanjali Gems
The stock is locked in lower circuit for the 13th straight trading day, down 5% at Rs 18.35 after the media report suggested that the CBI had arrested Vice President of the company in PNB case.
The Rs 126.36-billion fraud was allegedly perpetrated by billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi, the promoter of Gitanjali Gems
In recent months, PNB has emerged as one of the largest gold importing banks, where it earned a margin of 1-2 per cent
Nair had signed various applications to avail the LoU facility, and he was also a director at 19 other companies of Mehul Choksi, the CBI lawyer said
Two of the four arrested accused are from Nirav Modi's firm, one is an auditor and one an employee of the Gitanjali Group
CBI arrested four officials of Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi's companies. on Monday Vipul Ambani and five others were sent to 14-day judicial custody
Apart from the Congress, Trinamool Congress asked for a discussion on Punjab National Bank fraud case
In the three weeks since details of the alleged fraud was disclosed, Indian authorities and the media have squarely blamed Punjab National Bank, and Nirav Modi
In August 2013, the then UPA government had introduced the 80:20 rule which allowed traders to import gold only after they had exported 20 per cent of gold from their previous import
The PNB filed a second complaint with the CBI on February 13
Legal experts are not sure if threat of confiscation of property will be deterrent enough for fleeing offenders
The PNB crisis, and the vastly larger NPA crisis, have demonstrated that the RBI's oversight of banks is flawed
The Congress or the Left Front failed to drive home the electoral advantage from the PNB scam and they must examine what could have gone wrong