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Critical lapses, blatant violations led to Nirav Modi fraud: PNB report

The report said that it is "incomprehensible" that branch staff did not notice the fraud being committed

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Punjab National Bank

Abhirup Roy, Aditya Kalra and Euan Rocha | Reuters Mumbai/ New Delhi
A $2 billion fraud at India's Punjab National Bank (PNB) may have been orchestrated by a few rogue employees, but it escaped detection because of widespread risk-control and monitoring lapses in many areas of the bank, the bank's own internal probe has found.

PNB, India's second-biggest state-controlled lender, has previously alleged that a handful of staff at a single Mumbai branch issued fake bank guarantees over several years to help two jewellery groups - controlled by Indian diamond magnate Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi - raise billions of dollars in foreign credit and commit India's biggest-ever bank fraud.