Bank Frauds: Rise in scams hit capital position of banks
In 2019-20, the Indian banking sector saw a 159% jump in dubious transactions to Rs 1.86 lakh crore, the Reserve Bank of Indiaâs data showed.
For the first six month of 2019-20, SBI â the largest lender of the country with about 25% market share in loans â reported 2939 incidents of fraud valued at Rs 25,417 crore.
A spate of frauds has hit the banking sector in recent times which could significantly deplete the capital position of the lenders as they are mandated to set aside capital as provision for the entire fraud amount.
In the last month, two cases of fraud have come up. Firstly, that of IVRCL, where the companyâs MD E Sudhir Reddy and Joint MD R Balarami Reddy was booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation for the alleged fraud of Rs 4,800 crore against a consortium of banks. Another was State-owned Punjab & Sind Bank which declared the account of Sintex Industries which has an exposure of Rs
Indian Bank announced that fully provided Non Performing Accounts of two companies of Pratibha Group namely, Pratibha Industries and FEMC-Pratibha Joint Venture with total outstanding dues of Rs.574.66 crore has been declared as fraud and reported to RBI as per regulatory
requirement.
The Bank has already made full provision of
Rs.574.66 crore against the aforesaid two Accounts.
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