BJP hits back at Congress, saying PNB scam happened during UPA govt, accuses opposition party of spreading lies
People detained including PNB's former deputy manager Gokulnath Shetty, bank's single window operator Manoj Kharat, and Hemant Bhat, who is authorised signatory of the Nirav Modi group firms
In March 2017, Ind-Ra said it had rated the company's debt instruments at 'IND A-' with a stable outlook
The scams vary from Jimmy Nagarwala's Rs 6 million from SBI to Nirav Modi's Rs 110 billion from PNB. Modi govt still loves them
The billionaire jeweller to the world's rich and famous was doing well for himself. Nirav Modi's troubles, however, grew along with his blinding success
Will the upright citizen now start thinking that paying taxes and servicing loans honestly is for fools?
Not all of the bad loan problem that Indian banks are going through is because of fraud
The saga unfolded after a bribery complaint by the Hong Kong branch of an Indian bank
The ED has sent out letters of request, called 'letters rogatory', with a clutch of evidence to the concerned enforcement agencies asking for sealing of outlets
Surjewala said that not just the PNB, the fraud covers 16 other banks
The PNB also named the banks in the complaint, which included the Frankfurt and Mauritius branches of the State Bank of India
In India, loan frauds typically refer to cases where the borrower intentionally tries to deceive the lending bank and does not repay the loan
CBI said PNB officials Gokulnath Shetty and Manoj Kharat, in connivance with accused companies, defrauded the bank of Rs 48 bn
The industry is now technically insolvent, with the market capitalisation of many companies now lower than their debt outstanding
Passports of Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi suspended for four weeks
Tax sleuths also pasted attachment notices at immovable properties of Modi, his wife Ami and his firms located in Mumbai, Surat, Jaipur and Delhi
The CBI and ED continued their crackdown on the bank fraud, registering a fresh case against Nirav Modi's maternal uncle Mehul Choksi
The former top bank official said the scam that started during UPA rule increased 50 fold in the NDA rule
Allahabad Bank was among other banks that were said to have offered credit based on Letters of Undertaking issued by PNB
Market-based reform, like the new bankruptcy code, has a better chance of success than bureaucratic stipulations for govt bankers