Allahabad Bank reports ₹1775 core fraud by Bhushan Power & Steel
Live MintNew Delhi: After Punjab National Bank, another state-owned lender Allahabad Bank Saturday reported a fraud of over ₹1,774 crore by Bhushan Power and Steel to the Reserve Bank of India. In a regulatory filing, Allahabad Bank said on the basis of the findings of the forensic audit investigation and the CBI's FIR against the company and its directors, alleging diversion of funds from banking system by Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd, a fraud of ₹1,774.82 core has been reported by the bank to the RBI. It is expected that more banks would report fraud committed by Bhushan Power and Steel as the CBI complaint registered in April named several other lenders. According to the CBI, Bhushan Power and Steel diverted around ₹2,348 crore through its directors and staff from the loan accounts of PNB, Oriental Bank of Commerce, IDBI Bank and UCO Bank into the accounts of more than 200 shell companies without any obvious purpose.