Mumbai: Amid allegations of cooperative banks being used as conduits for money laundering, NABARD, which jointly regulates such lenders, has said that it has found no shortcoming pointing towards any such activity.
"Every year we do an inspection and we have not found anything like that," National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development's (NABARD) chairman Prakash Bakshi told reporters over the weekend, when asked about the recent controversy over money laundering.
A probe launched by Reserve Bank of India following allegations of non-compliance with anti-money laundering measures and know your customer (KYC) norms by top private banks has reportedly found that cooperative banks are used as conduits.
Not having the entire bouquet of service offerings, the cooperative banks tie-up with scheduled commercial banks to expand their reach. Co-operative banks can accept cash under Rs 50,000 from customers (the limit at which reporting to tax authorities sets in). They usually earn commission from larger banks for providing services. ...
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02:22 PM, May 19, 2013
The Supreme Court has ruled that there will be no single entrance exam for PG medical and dental colleges this year. States which didn't conduct their own exams will follow the NEET results, but they are not binding on all states. ...
07:33 PM, May 13, 2013
The iconic 50 year old photograph of Paul Newman kissing Joanne Woodward has been used on the official poster at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The couple were photographed during the shooting of the aptly named 'A New Kind of Love', by director Melville Shavelson (1963) in which the two starred. The annual Cannes Film Festival is to begin on May 15th and workers were seen prepping up the venue...
05:13 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed medical colleges to declare all pending Post Graduate results, which were stayed by the December 13, 2012, order. However, this is only an interim arrangement for this year and a final judgement will be delivered by the Supreme Court in the first week of July. The Supreme Court has also left the option of following the NEET result on the colleges. This means...
02:45 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India is probing the Cobrapost sting operation on alleged money laundering by top banks. The RBI report has revealed major irregularities in top banks. The report shows string of violations on several counts. Sources say the RBI report reveals dummy PANs, unknown NRO IDs, unauthorised gold sale, rampant non-compliance of KYC norms and irregular staff trips. Sources say the RBI probe into ICICI Bank...
01:14 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday decide the fate of 90,000 medical aspirants after it takes a decision on National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) or the common entrance test for MBBS, Dental and PG medical courses. This comes more than a month after a CNN-IBN sting operation exposed how PG medical seats were being sold in black in clear violation of a Supreme Court order. Meanwhile, it...
08:53 AM, May 13, 2013
Srinagar/Chandigarh: Amid fresh allegations of money laundering by banks, RBI and several banks on Thursday said actions are being taken against erring institutions and employees for violating prudential banking norms. The central bank has already completed investigations against banks and would take action against guilty institutions, RBI Governor D Subbarao said in Srinagar. "We have done investigations, we have prepared an internal report. There are processes to be followed to...
10:32 PM, May 09, 2013
Chandigarh: Bank officials' advices of splitting deposits to evade taxes, as exposed in a sting operation by an online news portal, are "undesirable loose talks" but there is no apparent criminality, SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said on Thursday. "Prima facie, things that have come to our notice it looks (that) there is no criminality in the sense that somebody has suggested splitting up your deposits, say Rs 50 lakh into...
09:45 PM, May 09, 2013
Srinagar: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday said it has completed investigations against banks following the Cobrapost expose and will take action if they are found guilty of violating prudential banking norms. "We have done investigations, we have prepared an internal report. There are processes to be followed to take investigations to its logical closure...The first is action against individual institutions who are involved in practises which are...
02:50 PM, May 09, 2013
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11:34 PM, May 06, 2013
As many as 23 public and private sector banks and insurance companies were on Monday accused of "running a nation-wide money laundering racket" by online portal Cobrapost, prompting the Finance Ministry and regulator IRDA to initiate independent investigations into the matter. ...
11:31 PM, May 06, 2013
CNBC TV18's Akanksha Sethi spoke to State Bank of India's chairman Pratip Chaudhary over the latest expose by Cobrapost revealing money laundering operations at SBI and other public sector unit banks. ...
09:48 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: As many as 23 public and private sector banks and insurance companies were on Monday accused of "running a nation-wide money laundering racket" by online portal Cobrapost, prompting the Finance Ministry and regulator IRDA to initiate independent investigations into the matter. In its second expose, Cobrapost accused country's leading banks and insurance companies of "running a nation-wide money laundering racket, blatantly violating laws of the land". Those named...
09:48 PM, May 06, 2013
Part Two of the Cobrapost investigation on money laundering methods used by banks focused on 23 major public sector banks and financial institutions. This included the State Bank of India as also the Life Insurance Corporation. ...
09:34 PM, May 06, 2013
Part Two of the Cobrapost investigation on money laundering methods used by banks focuses on 23 major public sector banks and financial institutions. This includes the State Bank of India as also the Life Insurance Corporation. ...
07:33 PM, May 06, 2013
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...
06:39 PM, May 06, 2013
Twenty three public sector banks, including the SBI, and insurance companies have been named in a sting operation conducted by special investigations website Cobrapost. ...
05:55 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: 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. Cobrapost editor Aniruddha Bahal claims that both banks and the insurance companies flouted the Foreign Exchange Management...
10:43 AM, May 06, 2013
Panihati: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday mocked her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's comment that the former Left Front regime had kept chit funds at bay and promised to publish 'posters' against canards by the Marxist party. "Kept them at bay? But rubbed shoulders with them! Whose photo is this?" Banerjee asked dramatically at a Trinamool Congress rally in Panihati in North 24 Parganas, showing a photo purported to...
12:40 AM, May 05, 2013
A hundred years ago when Dhundiraj Govind Phalke organised the first public screening of his film Raja Harishchandra, the publicity posters didn't have any images on them, but that changed soon after. A film's publicity poster also became an extension of the creativity expressed on celluloid and able artists highlighted those selected images from the movie that could draw the audiences to inside the dark theatres for more than two-hours...
06:25 AM, May 03, 2013
