Nine arrested for bank fraud in Chennai
The Hindu
Customers had submitted fake documents and had obtained loans with the connivance of some bank staff, police said
In a week, the Anti Bank Fraud Wing of Central Crime Branch has arrested nine persons including two bank staff for defrauding banks by submitting forged documents to get loans sanctioned in violation of norms. They caused a wrongful loss of ₹6 crore to the banks by their acts in five different cases, said police.
Police said Lyson, branch manager of HSBC bank, Rajaji Salai had lodged a complaint on the fraudulent sanction of a personal loan for ₹1.51 crore in the name of I.V Support Technologies. Forged documents were submitted to the bank with the connivance of bank staff, he alleged. On his complaint, police registered a case and took up an investigation.