Food inflation softened, but higher crude prices almost balanced that out. Bond yields have already moved up, while poor balance sheets impede banks' ability to lend
In a letter Modi wrote on Feb 15/16 to the PNB management, he pegged the amount his companies owes to the bank under Rs 50 bn
The central error here is that the SWIFT inter-bank communication system is not monitored as carefully as it should be by some Indian banks
The ED is also moving to attach at least two dozen immovable properties of Modi, Choksi and their concerns under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act
The law enforcement agency has asked for names of officials who were involved in the scam and sought identification of officials who could have taken action and prevented it
Party releases documents that show Choksi was decalred absconder in August 2017
UCO Bank slipped 4.58%, Dena Bank - 4.43% and Oriental Bank of Commerce - 1.71%
PNB fraud has evoked many more tweets from him than the other issues
Ramdev said Nirav Modi will face the consequences for the sins he has committed
Financial services secretary, said the bank "will have to own responsibility of bonafide transactions."
Last month, Punjab National Bank, known as PNB, filed an initial criminal complaint with the country’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) accusing celebrity jeweller Nirav Modi and others of defrauding the bank and causing it a loss of 2.8 billion Indian rupees (more than $43 million). The allegations against a man whose diamond creations have draped Hollywood stars such as Kate Winslet and Dakota Johnson generated a flurry of coverage across India’s TV screens and newspapers. Modi has not publicly commented on the case. But as more details surfaced about what is alleged to have happened at the state-run bank, which was founded in 1894, the stakes have gotten higher.
The multi-pronged action by the CBI, ED, and others comes five days after PNB admitted to unearthing a fraud of Rs 115.15 billion involving Modi's companies
Gandhi's statements come in the wake of Punjab National Bank fraud case, involving businessmen Nirav Deepak Modi and Mehul Chinubhai Choksi
Eighteen businessmen and 24 firms who had taken the franchise of Modi and Choksi's jewellery brand ended up filing criminal complaints of financial bankruptcy
Nirav Modi acquired fraudulent letters of undertaking from one of PNB's branches for overseas credit from other Indian lenders
The nationalisation of banks by Mrs Indira Gandhi on the midnight of 19th July 1969 changed the way banking was done in India
The accounts given by executives suggest an answer as simple as it is alarming: no one was paying attention
The Union also alleged that the RBI has failed to fulfill its role as a regulator of the banking sector
The apparent failure of anyone to notice the largest fraud in Indian banking history until this January reveals a "rot" in the state financial sector that goes beyond one lender
CBI questions Nirav Modi's CFO Vipul Ambani; searches PNB's Brady House branch