Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the government on Friday over an RBI report showing bank frauds have gone up by 15 percent year-on-year in 2018-19, asking who is the guarantor allowing such “big bank frauds”.
The number of cases of frauds reported by banks saw a jump of 15 percent year-on-year basis in 2018-19, with the amount involved increasing by 73.8 percent in the year, the Reserve Bank of India’s annual report showed.
In FY19, banking sector reported 6,801 frauds involving Rs 71,542.93 crore as against 5,916 cases involving Rs 41,167.04 crore reported in 2017-18.
“Country’s biggest banking institution RBI is saying that bank frauds are increasing right under the nose of the government. In 2018-19, this theft has increased,” Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.
देश की सबसे बड़ी बैंकिंग संस्था RBI कह रही है कि सरकार की नाक के नीचे बैंक फ़्रॉड बढ़ते जा रहे हैं।
2018-19 में ये चोरी और बढ़ गयी। बैकों को 72,000 करोड़ रुपए का चूना लग चुका है। लेकिन वो गारंटर कौन है जो इतने बड़े फ़्रॉड होने दे रहा है?#RBILootedhttps://t.co/g5BWUhVSW9
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) August 30, 2019
“Banks have been duped of Rs 72,000 crore. But, who is the guarantor who is allowing such big bank frauds to occur,” the Congress general secretary asked.
Congress’ chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also hit out at the government over the rising number of bank frauds.
“‘Loot & Scoot’ in ‘New India’ as a complicit BJP govt looks the other way and common man is taxed!” he said.
