Frauds in Banks

Submitted By:

Shiraj Sherasia (09020242039)

Shruti Gupta (09020242040)
Shruti Srivastava (09020242041)
Swati Randhawa (09020242042)
Teena Deuri (09020242043)
Avinash Tirkey (09020242044)
Vinod Tripathi (09020242045)

Submitted To:

Mr. S. K. Vaze
Faculty
Trade Finance
Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pune.
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BANK FRAUDS
Before we start discussing about frauds in banks, their reasons and their effects
and ways to combat them it is necessary that we first understand the term.

What is fraud?

Fraud is any dishonest act and behavior by which one person gains or intends
to gain advantage over another person. Fraud causes loss to the victim directly
or indirectly. Fraud has not been described or discussed clearly in The Indian
Penal Code but sections dealing with cheating, concealment, forgery
counterfeiting and breach of trust has been discusses which leads to the act of
fraud.

Fraud as described in the Indian Contract Act, Sec 17 is any of the acts by a
party to a contract or with his connivance or by his agents with the intention to
deceive another party or his agent or to induce him to enter in to a contract

What is a bank fraud?

Bank fraud is the use of fraudulent means to obtain money, assets, or other
property owned or held by a financial institution. In many instances, bank fraud
is a criminal offense. While the specific elements of a particular banking fraud
law vary between jurisdictions, the term bank fraud applies to actions that
employ a scheme or artifice, as opposed to bank robbery or theft. For this
reason, bank fraud is considered a white-collar crime.

Bank fraud is a big business in today’s world. With more educational

qualifications, banking becoming impersonal and increase in banking sector
have gave rise to this white collar crime. In a survey made till 1997 bank frauds
in nationalized banks was of Rs.497.60 crore.

REASONS OF BANK FRAUDS

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1. Lack of properly trained and experienced employees in banks.

2. There is a sudden and tremendous increase in banking business. This

expansive explosion has created a vacuum of personnel.

3. New recruits often do not have adequate training or experience before they
are put in responsible positions.

4. Bank employees feel overburdened due to excess pressure.

5. Dilution of system and non-adherence to procedures.

6. Unauthorized delegation at branches.

7. Frauds in deposits accounts are mainly due to policy of “know your customer
(KYC)” are not followed properly.

Banking fraud can be classified as:

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1. Fraud by insiders
Rogue traders
A rogue trader is a highly placed insider nominally authorized to invest
sizeable funds on behalf of the bank; this trader secretly makes
progressively more aggressive and risky investments using the bank's
money, when one investment goes bad, the rogue trader engages in further
market speculation in the hope of a quick profit which would hide or cover
the loss.
Unfortunately, when one investment loss is piled onto another, the costs to
the bank can reach into the hundreds of millions of rupees; there have even
been cases in which a bank goes out of business due to market investment
losses.

Fraudulent loans
One way to remove money from a bank is to take out a loan, a practice
bankers would be more than willing to encourage if they know that the
money will be repaid in full with interest. A fraudulent loan, however, is
one in which the borrower is a business entity controlled by a dishonest
bank officer or an accomplice; the "borrower" then declares bankruptcy or
vanishes and the money is gone. The borrower may even be a non-existent
entity and the loan merely an artifice to conceal a theft of a large sum of
money from the bank.

Wire fraud
Wire transfer networks such as the international, interbank fund transfer
system are tempting as targets as a transfer, once made, is difficult or
impossible to reverse. As these networks are used by banks to settle
accounts with each other, rapid or overnight wire transfer of large amounts
of money are commonplace; while banks have put checks and balances in
place, there is the risk that insiders may attempt to use fraudulent or forged
documents which claim to request a bank depositor's money be wired to
another bank, often an offshore account in some distant foreign country.

Forged or fraudulent documents

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Forged documents are often used to conceal other thefts; banks tend to
count their money meticulously so every penny must be accounted for. A
document claiming that a sum of money has been borrowed as a loan,
withdrawn by an individual depositor or transferred or invested can
therefore be valuable to a thief who wishes to conceal the minor detail that
the bank's money has in fact been stolen and is now gone.

Uninsured deposits
There are a number of cases each year where the bank itself turns out to be
uninsured or not licensed to operate at all. The objective is usually to solicit
for deposits to this uninsured "bank", although some may also sell stock
representing ownership of the "bank". Sometimes the names appear very
official or very similar to those of legitimate banks.

For instance, the "Chase Trust Bank" of Washington DC appeared in

2002 with no license and no affiliation to its seemingly apparent namesake;
the real Chase Manhattan bank, New York. There is a very high risk of
fraud when dealing with unknown or uninsured institutions.

Theft of Identity
Dishonest bank personnel have been known to disclose depositors' personal
information for use in theft of identity frauds. The perpetrators then use the
information to obtain identity cards and credit cards using the victim's name
and personal information.

Demand draft fraud

DD fraud is usually done by one or more dishonest bank employees i.e. the
Bunko Banker. They remove few DD leaves or DD books from stock and
write them like a regular DD. Since they are insiders, they know the coding,
punching of a demand draft. These Demand drafts will be issued payable at
distant town/city without debiting an account. Then it will be cashed at the
payable branch. For the paying branch it is just another DD. This kind of
fraud will be discovered only when the head office does the branch-wise
reconciliation, which normally will take 6 months. By that time the money
is unrecoverable.

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2. Fraud by others
Forgery and altered cheques
Thieves have altered cheques to change the name (in order to deposit
cheques intended for payment to someone else) or the amount on the face of
a cheque (a few strokes of a pen can change 100.00 into 100,000.00,
although such a large figure may raise some eyebrows).

Instead of tampering with a real cheque, some fraudsters will attempt to

forge a depositor's signature on a blank cheque or even print their own
cheques drawn on accounts owned by others, non-existent accounts or even
alleged accounts owned by non-existent depositors. The cheque will then be
deposited to another bank and the money withdrawn before the cheque can
be returned as invalid or for non-sufficient funds.

Stolen cheques
Some fraudsters obtain access to facilities handling large amounts of
cheques, such as a mailroom or post office or the offices of a tax authority
(receiving many cheques) or a corporate payroll or a social or veterans'
benefit office (issuing many cheques). A few cheques go missing; accounts
are then opened under assumed names and the cheques (often tampered or
altered in some way) deposited so that the money can then be withdrawn by
thieves. Stolen blank cheque books are also of value to forgers who then
sign as if they were the depositor.
Accounting fraud
In order to hide serious financial problems, some businesses have been
known to use fraudulent bookkeeping to overstate sales and income, inflate
the worth of the company's assets or state a profit when the company is
operating at a loss. These tampered records are then used to seek investment
in the company's bond or security issues or to make fraudulent loan
applications in a final attempt to obtain more money to delay the inevitable
collapse of an unprofitable or mismanaged firm.

Bill discounting fraud

Essentially a confidence trick, a fraudster uses a company at their disposal
to gain confidence with a bank, by appearing as a genuine, profitable
customer. To give the illusion of being a desired customer, the company
regularly and repeatedly uses the bank to get payment from one or more of

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its customers. These payments are always made, as the customers in

question are part of the fraud, actively paying any and all bills raised by the
bank. After certain time, after the bank is happy with the company, the
company requests that the bank settles its balance with the company before
billing the customer. Again, business continues as normal for the fraudulent
company, its fraudulent customers, and the unwitting bank. Only when the
outstanding balance between the bank and the company is sufficiently large,
the company takes the payment from the bank, and the company and its
customers disappear, leaving no-one to pay the bills issued by the bank.

Cheque kiting
Cheque Kiting exploits a system in which, when a cheque is deposited to a
bank account, the money is made available immediately even though it is
not removed from the account on which the cheque is drawn until the
cheque actually clears.

Deposit 1000 in one bank, write a cheque on that amount and deposit it to
your account in another bank; you now have 2000 until the cheque clears.

In-transit or non-existent cash is briefly recorded in multiple accounts.

A cheque is cashed and, before the bank receives any money by clearing the
cheque, the money is deposited into some other account or withdrawn by
writing more cheques. In many cases, the original deposited cheque turns
out to be a forged cheque.

Some perpetrators have swapped checks between various banks on a daily

basis, using each to cover the shortfall for a previous cheque.
What they were actually doing was check kiting; like a kite in the wind, it
flies briefly but eventually has to come back down to the ground.

Credit card fraud

Credit card fraud is widespread as a means of stealing from banks,
merchants and clients. A credit card is made of three plastic sheet of
polyvinyl chloride. The central sheet of the card is known as the core stock.
These cards are of a particular size and many data are embossed over it. But
credit cards fraud manifest in a number of ways.
They are:
• Genuine cards are manipulated
• Genuine cards are altered

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• Counterfeit cards are created

• Fraudulent telemarketing is done with credit cards.
Genuine cards are obtained on fraudulent applications in the
names/addresses of other persons and used.
It is feared that with the expansion of E-Commerce, M-Commerce and
Internet facilities being available on massive scale the fraudulent fund
freaking via credit cards will increase tremendously.

Counterfeit credit cards are known as white

plastics.

Booster cheques
A booster cheque is a fraudulent or bad cheque used to make a payment to a
credit card account in order to "bust out" or raise the amount of available
credit on otherwise-legitimate credit cards. The amount of the cheque is
credited to the card account by the bank as soon as the payment is made,
even though the cheque has not yet cleared. Before the bad cheque is
discovered, the perpetrator goes on a spending spree or obtains cash
advances until the newly-"raised" available limit on the card is reached. The
original cheque then bounces, but by then it is already too late.

Stolen payment cards

Often, the first indication that a victim's wallet has been stolen is a 'phone
call from a credit card issuer asking if the person has gone on a spending
spree; the simplest form of this theft involves stealing the card itself and
charging a number of high-ticket items to it in the first few minutes or hours
before it is reported as stolen.

A variant of this is to copy just the credit card numbers (instead of drawing
attention by stealing the card itself) in order to use the numbers in online
frauds.

Duplication or skimming of card information

This takes a number of forms, ranging from a dishonest merchant copying
clients' credit card numbers for later misuse (or a thief using carbon copies
from old mechanical card imprint machines to steal the info) to the use of
tampered credit or debit card readers to copy the magnetic stripe from a

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payment card while a hidden camera captures the numbers on the face of the
card.
Some thieves have surreptitiously added equipment to publicly accessible
automatic teller machines; a fraudulent card stripe reader would capture the
contents of the magnetic stripe while a hidden camera would sneak a peek
at the user's PIN. The fraudulent equipment would then be removed and the
data used to produce duplicate cards that could then be used to make ATM
withdrawals from the victims' accounts.

Impersonation and theft of identity

Theft of identity has become an increasing problem; the scam operates by
obtaining information about a victim, then using the information to apply
for identity cards, accounts and credit in that person's name. Often little
more than name, parents' name, date and place of birth are sufficient to
obtain a birth certificate; each document obtained then is used as
identification in order to obtain more identity documents. Government-
issued standard identification numbers such as "Social security numbers,
PAN numbers" are also valuable to the identity thief.
Unfortunately for the banks, identity thieves have been known to take out
loans and disappear with the cash, quite content to see the wrong persons
blamed when the debts go bad.

Fraudulent loan applications

These take a number of forms varying from individuals using false
information to hide a credit history filled with financial problems and
unpaid loans to corporations using accounting fraud to overstate profits in
order to make a risky loan appear to be a sound investment for the bank.
Some corporations have engaged in over-expansion, using borrowed money
to finance costly mergers and acquisitions and overstating assets, sales or
income to appear solvent even after becoming seriously financially
overextended. The resulting debt load has ruined entire large companies,
such as Italian dairy conglomerate Parmalat, leaving banks exposed to
massive losses from bad loans.

Phishing and Internet fraud

Phishing operates by sending forged e-mail, impersonating an online bank,
auction or payment site; the e-mail directs the user to a forged web site
which is designed to look like the login to the legitimate site but which

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claims that the user must update personal info. The information thus stolen
is then used in other frauds, such as theft of identity or online auction fraud.

A number of malicious "Trojan horse" programmes have also been used to

snoop on Internet users while online, capturing keystrokes or confidential
data in order to send it to outside sites.

Money laundering
The term "money laundering" dates back to the days of Al Capone Money
laundering has since been used to describe any scheme by which the true
origin of funds is hidden or concealed.
The operations work in various forms. One variant involved buying
securities (stocks and bonds) for cash; the securities were then placed for
safe deposit in one bank and a claim on those assets used as collateral for a
loan at another bank. The borrower would then default on the loan. The
securities, however, would still be worth their full amount. The transaction
served only to disguise the original source of the funds.

Forged currency notes

Paper currency is the usual mode of exchange of money at the personal
level, though in business, cheques and drafts are also used considerably.
Bank note has been defined in Section 489A. If forgery of currency notes
could be done successfully then it could on one hand made the forger
millionaire and the other hand destroy the economy of the nation. A
currency note is made out of a special paper with a coating of plastic
laminated on both sides of each note to protect the ink and the anti forgery
device from damage. More over these notes have security threads, water
marks. But these things are not known to the majority of the population.
Forged currency notes are in full circulation and it’s very difficult to catch
hold of such forgers as once such notes are circulated it’s very difficult to
track its origin.

But the latest fraud which is considered as the safest method of crime
without making physical injury is the Computer Frauds in Banks.

Computerization of banks had started since 1994 in India and till 2000 4000
banks were completely and 9000 branches have been partially
computerized. About 1000 branches had the facilities for International bank
Transaction. Reserve Bank of India has evolved working pattern for Local

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area Network and wide area Network by instituting different microwave

stations so that money transactions could be carried out quickly and safely.

The main banking tasks which computers perform are maintaining debit-
credit records of accounts, operating automated teller machines, and carry
out electronic fund transfer, print out statements of accounts create periodic
balance sheets etc.
Internet facilities of computer have revolutionized international banking for
fund transfer and for exchanging data of interest relating to banking and to
carry out other banking functions and provides certain security to the
customers by assigning different pin numbers and passwords.

Computer depredations have by some been classified as:

Computer frauds;

Computer frauds are those involve embezzlement or defalcations achieved

by tampering with computer data record or programme, etc.

Computer crimes

Computer crimes are those committed with a computer that is where a

computer acts as a medium. The difference is however academic only.

Bank computer crimes are committed mainly for money, however other
motive or The Mens rea can be:

• Personal vendetta;
• Black mail;
• Ego;
• Mental aberrations;
• Mischief

Bank computer crimes have a typical feature, the evidence relating to crime
is intangible. The evidences can be easily erased, tampered or secreted.
More over it is not easily detectable. More over the evidence connecting the
criminal with the crime is often not available. Computer crimes are different
from the usual crimes mainly because of the mode of investigation. There
are no eyewitness, no usual evidentiary clues and no documentary
evidences.

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WHY IS IT DIFFICULT TO TRACK BANK

FRAUDS?

• Hi-tech crime
The information technology is changing very fast. The normal investigator
does not have the proper background and knowledge .special investigators
have to be created to carry out the investigations. The FBI of USA have a
cell, even in latest scenario there has been cells operating in the
Maharashtra police department to counter cyber crimes. CBI also has been
asked to create special team for fighting cyber crimes.

• International crime
A computer crime may be committed in one country and the result can be in
another country. There has been lot of jurisdictional problem a though the
Interpol does help but it too has certain limitations. The different treaties
and conventions have created obstructions in relation to tracking of cyber
criminals hiding or operation in other nations

• No-scene crime:
The computer satellite computer link can be placed or located anywhere.
The usual crime scene is the cyber space. The terminal may be anywhere
and the criminal need not indicate the place. The only evidence a criminal
leaves behind is the loss to the crime.

• Faceless crime:
The major advantage criminal has in instituting a computer crime is that
there is no personal exposure, no written documents, no signatures, no
fingerprints or voice recognition. The criminal is truly and in strict sense
faceless.
There are certain spy software’s which is utilized to find out passwords and
other vital entry information to a computer system. The entry is gained
through a spam or bulk mail.
The existing enacted laws of India are not at all adequate to counter cyber
crimes. The Indian Penal code, evidence act, and criminal procedure code
had no clue about computers when they were codified. It is highly required
to frame and enact laws which would deal with those subjects which are
new to the country specially cyber law; Intellectual property right etc.

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The Reserve Bank of India has come up with different proposals to make
the way easier, they have enacted electronic fund transfer act and
regulations, have amended, The Reserve Bank of India Act, Bankers Book
Evidence Act etc., experience of India in relation to information and
technology is limited and is in a very immature state. It is very much
imperative that the state should seek the help of the experienced and
developed nations.

HOW TO TACKLE BANK FRAUDS

Nowhere in the world the fraud can be avoided hence the banks can be no
exceptions. It is a human tendency of taking the risk to commit the frauds if
he finds suitable opportunities. So it is wise to expect the occurrence of the
fraud. If the fraud is expected, efforts can be concentrated on the areas,
which are fraud prone. Fraud is the game of two. The rule makers and rule
breakers. Whoever is strong in the anticipation of the situations wins the
game of frauds. Fraud is a phenomenon, which cannot be eliminated, but it
needs to be managed.

Develop a fraud policy:

The policy should be written and distributed to all employees, Borrowers
and depositors. This gives a moral tension to the potential Fraudster.
Maintain a zero tolerance for violations. The Indian bank needs to roar
against the action that is taken against the Fraudsters. The media publicity
against the fraudsters at all the levels is necessary. The announcement by
US president George W. Bush that the "Corporate crooks will not be
spared" gave the deep impact to the Corporate America. In India also we
need to consider it as a severe problem and need to fight against it.

Assess Risk:
Look at the ways fraud can happen in the organization. It is very important
to study the trend and the style of frauds in the bank. Some of the big
nationalized banks maintain the databases of the fraud cases reported in
their banks. But the databases are dumb. They yield nothing unless they are
analyzed effectively. Establish regular fraud-detection procedures. It could
be in the form of internal audit or it could also be in the form of inspections.
These procedures alone discourage employees from committing fraud. In
addition to this the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has issued an

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"Accounting and Assurance standard on internal controls which is a real

guideline to test internal controls. Controls break down because people
affect them, and because circumstances change.

Segregate duties in critical areas:

It is the absolutely basic principle of auditing a single person should not
have the control of the books of accounts and the physical asset. Because
this is the scenario which tempts the employee to commit the fraud. Hence
it becomes essential to see that no one employee should be able to initiate
and complete a critical transaction without involving someone else.

Most of the banks in India have the well-defined authorization procedures.

The allocation of the sanctioning limits is also observed in most of the
cases. But still the bankers violate the authorities very easily. They just need
to collude with the outside parties. However the detection of the collusions
is possible in most of the cases if the higher authorities are willing to dig the
frauds.

Maintain the tone of Ethics at the top:

The subordinates have the tendency to follow their superiors. When the
signals are passed on to the middle management about the unethical
behavior of the top management the fear of punishment gets reduced and
the tendency of following the superior dominates. Fear vanishes when the
tendency of "If I have to die I'll take along the superior and die" tendency
rises.

Review and enforce password security:

The incidences of hacking and the Phishing have troubled the Indian Private
Sector banks to a great extent. In addition to this most of the Indian banks
are running behind the ATM and credit cards to compete with each other
but have conveniently forgone the fact that ATM cards and the credit cards
are the best tools available in the hands of the fraudsters. Inappropriate
system access makes it possible to steal large amounts of money very
quickly and, in many cases, without detection. Hence the review and the
enforcement of the security policy are going to be a crucial.

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Promote the Whistle blowing Culture:

Many of the surveys on Frauds have shown that the frauds are unearthed by
the "TIPS" from insider or may be from outsiders. Internal audits and
internal controls come much later. The message about contacting the
vigilance officers is flashed in most of the branch premises. However the
ethics lines are very rarely seen. The ethics lines are the help lines to the
employees or the well-wishers of the bank which tells them whether a
particular activity constitutes a fraud or not.

Conduct pre-employment screening:

Since the raw material of the Banks is cash the banker needs to be more
alert than any other employer before they recruit. Only testing the aptitude
of a person is not of any use. Know whom you are hiring. More than 20
percent of resumes contain false statements. Most employers will only
confirm dates of employment. Sometimes post employment condition might
create the greed in the minds of employee, hence at least the bankers should
test check the characters of their subordinates by creating real life scenarios
such as offering the bribes by calling on some dummy borrower.

Screen and monitor Borrowers:

Bad borrowers cause the biggest losses to the banks. What are they? Who
they represent themselves to be? Look at their ownership, clients,
references, and litigation history. In many cases the potential fraudsters
have history of defaulting in some other bank or Financial Institution.

SOME REAL LIFE EXAMPLES OF BANK

FRAUDS:-
ILLUSTRATION:
A classic case is the recent loan racket busted by the Uppal police in
State Bank of India (SBI)'s Chikkadpally branch. The modus operandi
adopted by the racketeers was interesting. A gang of four members
approached owner of a newly-constructed apartment building saying they
were interested in buying the flats.

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The gang took xerox copies of the building documents after entering into an
oral agreement of sale with the builder by paying Rs. 2 lakhs as an advance.
Later, they created forged documents in the name of building's owner
establishing that the latter had sold five flats to five defence employees.

Incidentally, the salary slips and other documents submitted by the loan
seekers were found to be genuine. "This was made possible because the
gang paid money to the defence employees to utilize their documents," says
an investigator. The gang hired an impostor who executed the sale deed
posing as the original building owner.

"We could not establish criminal negligence on the part of the bank
manager and hence he was not arrested," say the detectives. The police
learnt that the main lapse in the system is that the banks never asked for the
original documents at any stage except for the sale deed for execution of
which the offenders planted an impostor.

ILLUSTRATION:

October 2009:
The special CBI court of Bela Trivedi convicted three people in a bank
fraud case. They were given five years of rigorous imprisonment. The
convicted were identified as Minesh Dave, agriculture officer and bank
manager Edar branch Bank of Baroda, Natwar Lal Patel and Jasu Patel.

Prosecution lawyer, JN Parmar said, "The three submitted fake cheques

of State bank of India, Manekchowk branch and withdrew money
amounting to Rs22.45 lakhs from Bank of Baroda (Edar branch) from 1982
to 1986."

NRI lost Rs4.62 lakhs in ICICI bank fraud - There is a reported case of
multiple fraudulent transaction on the ICICI account of Mr. Govind Mishra.
The incident happened when Mr. was on a 2 weeks leave in Australia with
his family. Some people by some means busted into the account (mobile
phone transactions) and drained out about Rs 4.62 lakhs. Mr. Mishra has
been in contact with the bank authorities but the response is not very
encouraging. The Bank is citing answering to fraudulent e-mail which Mr.
Mishra denied.

ILLUSTRATION:

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BANK OF AMERICA: October 2008,

What started as a $35 bank error that the manager said he fixed, quickly
grew to $600 in OVERDRAFT FEES. Management at Bank of America
was well aware of their mistake, but failed on numerous occasions to
correct it.

A Berkeley California group hopes to bring a Class Action Lawsuit against

Bank of America for parasitic schemes that specifically prey on elderly,
disabled, and low-income families.

IILUSTRATION:
China has executed bankers for fraudulent activity; some recent cases (Sept
2004) which ended in capital punishment includes:
• Wang Liming, former accounting officer, China Construction Bank,
Henan, with others stole 20 million Yuan ($2.4 million in U.S. Currency)
from the bank using fraudulent papers, executed.
• Miao Ping, an accomplice in the same case, executed.
• Wang Xiang, same bank in an unrelated case, also executed for taking 20
million Yuan from the bank.
• Liang Shihan, Bank of China, Zhuhai, executed for helping cheat his
bank out of $10.3 million US.

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