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After 3 years, both banks were put into bankruptcy, a new nationalized bank was created and the assets of the two bankrupt banks and the bank accounts of local account holders were transferred to the new bank and the local depositors were made whole by stealing about $180 million of money belonging foreign depositors, who lost their entire savings.
Wells Fargo's sales culture and cross-selling strategy, and their impact on customers, were documented by the Wall Street Journal as early as 2011. [5] In 2013, a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed intense pressure on bank managers and individual bankers to produce sales against extremely aggressive and even mathematically impossible [7] quotas. [8]
In many instances, bank fraud is a criminal offence. While the specific elements of particular banking fraud laws vary depending on jurisdictions, the term bank fraud applies to actions that employ a scheme or artifice, as opposed to bank robbery or theft. For this reason, bank fraud is sometimes considered a white-collar crime. [2]
Three of Hernandez’s co-conspirators in the TD Bank fraud case have also been prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office: Armando Ariel De Leon, a former TD Bank employee in Miami-Dade, admitted ...
For its part, Bank of America asserted that incidents of fraud are rare and that 23 million of the bank’s customers use Zelle. “More than 99.95 percent of transactions across the Zelle network ...
Nearly all bank customers, or 92%, said they were “likely to reuse their bank” after the institution resolved a case of fraud. Most fraud victims said they still felt pretty good about their bank.
In October 2002, he pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud, bank fraud, obstruction of justice, and perjury. [59] Ferdinand Ward, financial swindler in the late 1800s; Dina Wein Reis pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in May 2011, having duped corporations out of tens of millions of dollars. [60]
The Punjab National Bank Fraud Case relates to fraudulent letter of undertaking worth ₹12,000 crore (US$1.4 billion) issued by the Punjab National Bank at its Brady House branch in Fort, Mumbai; making Punjab National Bank liable for the amount. [1] The fraud was allegedly organized by jeweller and designer Nirav Modi.