Frauds are increasing due to collective failure of the regulatory oversight mechanisms like statutory auditors, independent directors, the board, the shareholders and other regulators, says CBI director Sinha
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has blamed 'collective failure' of regulatory oversight mechanism, including statutory auditors, for the rise in corporate frauds in recent years, involving about Rs29,000 crore.
India has witnessed a marked increase in the number of scams that have surfaced both in public and private sectors, said Ranjit Sinha, director of CBI.
He said, “The scale and size of corporate frauds in India has zoomed in the last 15 years with majority of the cases of fraud involving siphoning off funds by promoters, top management and defrauding the lenders or investors”.
He said commercial banks have reported around 1.69 lakh cases of frauds involving Rs29,910 crore as on 31 March 2013.
“The public sector banks have commutatively lost a massive sum of Rs22,743 crore due to cheating and forgery in the three years ending March 2013,” Sinha said, while addressing the eighth annual summit on corporate frauds organised by Assocham.
He said a short-term objective of good results instead of long-term sustainability and failure of corporate governance mechanism are leading to growing fraudulent practices.
“These frauds are also occurring due to collective failure of the regulatory oversight mechanisms like statutory auditors, independent directors, the board, the shareholders and other regulators. This is, where a lot of correction, is required,” said Sinha.
The CBI director also highlighted 'sharp rise' in the non-performing assets (NPAs) of commercial banks. “The gross NPAs of the public sector banks was Rs1.64 lakh crore in March 2013 comprising 3.6% of gross advances and are estimated to have grown further as on March 2014,” he added.
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