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PMC Bank Fraud Case: Full detail of

the Bank fraud
Punjab Maharashtra Co-operative Bank is a Scheduled Commercial bank situated
in 6 states of the country. This bank was established on February 13, 1984 as a
single branch Bank. In a span of 35 years, the Bank has a wide network of 137
branches across six states. This bank has total deposits of about Rs 11,617.34
crore.

HEMANT SINGH

CREATED ON: OCT 7, 2019 19:12 IST

MODIFIED ON: OCT 7, 2019 19:20 IST
Customers at the PMC Bank's branch

Indian banking system is passing through a tough time. The banking

sector has huge Non Performing Assets (NPA). In this tough time another
bank fraud came in the light in the name of Punjab & Maharashtra
Cooperative (PMC) Bank.
About the Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank
This bank was established on February 13, 1984 as a single branch
cooperative Bank. Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank is a
Scheduled Urban Co-operative Bank with its area of operation in the
States of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi,Goa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh
and Andhra Pradesh.

The commencement of the banking business of PMC taken place

on February 13,1984. It operated nicely and within a time of 35 years,
the Bank has a wide network of 137 branches across six states.
PMC has 1814 number of employees and now this bank stands
among top 10 co-operative banks of the country.
At the time of its establishment PMC was a cooperative bank but in 2000
it got the status of Schedule Commercial Bank by the the Reserve Bank of
India. PMC is the youngest bank to achieve the ‘Scheduled Bank’ status.

Detail of the Bank fraud;

The crux of this bank fraud is that the higher management of the PMC
bank has given huge loan to the Housing Development and Infrastructure
Ltd (HDIL) and its group entities. This fraud case is related to transfer of
70% of the total credit facilities of the PMC bank to HDIL and its
associated companies. If i talk about the total amount of the bank fraud
then it was Rs 4,355 cr. Now the total NPA of the bank has grown to
73%.

The PMC bank allegedly favoured to the promoters of Housing

Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) and allowed them to operate
password protected ‘masked accounts’.

It is found that around 21,049 bank accounts were opened by

bogus names to conceal 44 loan accounts. The bank's software
was also tampered to conceal these loan accounts.
This bank fraud case is busted by a bunch of women employees of the
credit department of the PMC bank. These employees told to the RBI that
they were aware of the ghost accounts. When this case came in the light;
then customers of the PMC bank rushed to the PMC bank to withdraw
their hard earned money but they were refused to give their deposited
money and withdrawal limit is set by the bank.

Now the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sealed the assets of Rs 3,500
cr of the HDIL group and the HDIL chief Rakesh Wadhawan and his son
Sarang Wadhawan have been arrested by the Mumbai Police.
Now it the need of the hour that the central government need to make
some strict policies to prevent such banking frauds in the country. The
most important measure I would suggest is to restrict the political
intervention in the functioning of the Indian banks.

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