The government accepted on Tuesday that there has been incidents of withdrawal of money by using customer base number fraud through bank accounts. Parliament was informed that according to the information, in nearly six such cases four public sector banks had reported fraud of around 1.5 crore rupees. According to the data provided by the Public Sector Banks (PSBs), money was being withdrawn from bank accounts using the base number of the customers in some banks, “Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.
He said steps have been taken to prevent such cases and in which cases have been registered, action has been initiated. In Bank of India, two cases of fraud were registered through the basis, in which 1.37 crore was withdrawn, whereas two cases of fraud were found in Syndicate Bank of Rs 2.26 lakh.
In the Bank of India, two cases have come up, the government said about it that bank employees are in it. In the case of Syndicate Bank, the government said that the amount withdrawn from fraud has been recovered and the bank is taking steps to prevent such cases. In addition to these four cases, one case has been filed in Allahabad Bank and UCO Bank for Rs 1.95 lakh and Rs 0.49 lakh respectively.
