Mumbai: The
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked all scheduled commercial
banks to provide details of shares purchased and sold by bank
officials between
September 1999 and April 2001, along with the copies of the
officials bank accounts during this period.
This information, to be
provided for all officers from the rank of manager and above, is
being sought in order to probe into a possible nexus between bank
officials and brokers during the scam period.
The banks have also been
asked to submit details covering value and volume of buy and sell
in respective stocks of the trading settlement together with
computer printouts of the ledgers of their respective bank
accounts.
The RBI has also asked
for the names, addresses and respective membership details of the
concerned exchanges of the relatives like sons or daughter of the
bank officials who were involved in the business of share-broking
during this period.
It is not known whether
the RBI has taken this step on its own instance or as per the
instructions by the joint parliamentary committee, which is
probing the scam.
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