The All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) has named 5,610 wilful
defaulters, who collectively defrauded public sector and private sector
banks in India of a staggering amount of Rs. 58,792 crore as on March 2016.
As per the list released by the apex bank employees' association late on
Tuesday, the nationalised banks had the most 3,192 accounts as wilful
defaulters with amount running up to Rs. 28,775 crore.
Top defaulters of PSU banks and financial institutions included Winsome Diamonds and Jewellery Ltd with a default amount of over Rs. 2,266
crore, Forever Precious jewellery & Diamonds (Rs 1,001 crore),
Kingfisher Airlines Ltd (Rs 1,201 crore), Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd
(Rs 884 crore), Indian Technomac Co Ltd (Rs 625 crore), Rank Industries
(Rs 566 crore), Raza Textiles (Rs 694.59 crore), Rei Agro Ltd (Rs 580
crore), S Kumars Nationwide Ltd (Rs 598 crore), Zenith Birla (India) Ltd
(Rs 139 crore), Zoom Developers (Rs 1,710 crore), and Electrotherm
India (Rs 385 crore).
For State Bank of India and its five associate banks, the number of wilful defaulters was 1,546 with a total defaulted amount at Rs. 18,576
crore. Private sector banks, financial institutions and foreign banks
were not spared either by the wilful defaulters, who defrauded these
institutions of Rs. 10,250 crore, Rs. 728 crore and Rs. 463 crore, respectively.
Among the top three nationalised banks having the highest amount of
defaulted loan amount are Punjab National Bank with 698 accounts (Rs
9,445 crore) followed by Central Bank of India and Oriental Bank of
Commerce with 639 and 339 accounts, respectively with a default amount
of Rs. 3,574 crore and Rs. 3,545 crore, respectively.
In private sector, Beta Naphthol promoted by Deepak Baweja and others defaulted a loan amount of Rs. 951.97 crore from Kotak Mahindra Bank, among the highest for the lender.
Kotak Mahindra Bank, Axis Bank and Indusind Bank were among the top private sector banks with highest default amount at Rs. 5,442 crore, Rs. 993 crore and Rs. 899 crore, respectively.
The AIBEA list included foreign banks, Standard Chartered Bank, Doha
Bank and Deutsche Bank in top slot with default loan amount at Rs. 301 crore, Rs. 72 crore and Rs. 31 crore, respectively.
Commenting on the increasing loan defaults by wilful defaulters, AIBEA
General Secretary C H Venkatachalam, said, "The government and the RBI
(Reserve Bank of India) are not taking tough measures to recover the bad
loans. Even their (defaulters') names are not being published."
"Loans are given from public money. Hence, people should know who the
loan defaulters are. When poor borrowers are harassed, corporate
defaulters are given all concessions. The number of willful defaulters
is also on the increase," AIBEA said.
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