Fake
accounts unearthed at IOB
Kolkata: The Reserve Bank
of India has unearthed a number of fake bank accounts opened at the Port Blair branch of
the Indian Overseas Bank, in the names of famous personalities like `Sourav Ganguly,
`Rhea Pillai, `Marc Robinson, `David Dhawan, and `Rahul Dev. The
case has been handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, while the bank is also
considering a departmental enquiry.
What is
being viewed most seriously is the larger issue of procedural lapse, despite clear-cut RBI
regulations on identification of depositors.
Such fake accounts in the
names of film personalities had been detected earlier by the CBI, in branches in Port
Blair and Chennai, opened for the specific purpose of laundering money.
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