Special Investigations website Cobrapost has revealed that 23 banks and insurance companies have been engaged in money laundering. Among the 23 banks involved are mostly PSU banks including some big names like the State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, IDBI, Oriental Bank and Dena Bank. Aniruddha Bahal, editor-in-chief, Cobrapost.com, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the matter.
Q. Hats off to you and your team. I fear that tomorrow there will be a larger scam and this will be forgotten, how do you plan to take this further? Have you discussed with Arvind Kejriwal on how to bring this to its logical conclusion? I am ashamed to be calling myself an Indian, it sends shivers down my spine when I realize how both public sector and private sector are in the same rot. Asked by: Dhaval B Shah
A. We cannot be cynical and not do investigations because we fear that they might not have the impact we hope to or desire. As a media platform we can only do stories and then when they are in the public space there are others whose role it could be to take it forward....
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06:15 PM, Apr 07, 2013
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05:50 PM, Jan 09, 2013
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