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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