<p class="title">Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the government on Friday over an RBI report showing bank frauds have gone up by 15 per cent year-on-year in 2018-19, asking who is the guarantor allowing such "big bank frauds".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The number of cases of frauds reported by banks saw a jump of 15 per cent year-on-year basis in 2018-19, with the amount involved increasing by 73.8 per cent in the year, the Reserve Bank of India's annual report showed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In FY19, banking sector reported 6,801 frauds involving Rs 71,542.93 crore as against 5,916 cases involving Rs 41,167.04 crore reported in 2017-18.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Country's biggest banking institution RBI is saying that bank frauds are increasing right under the nose of the government. In 2018-19, this theft has increased," Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Banks have been duped of Rs 72,000 crore. But, who is the guarantor who is allowing such big bank frauds to occur," the Congress general secretary asked.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also hit out at the government over the rising number of bank frauds.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"'Loot & Scoot' in 'New India' as a complicit BJP govt looks the other way and the common man is taxed!" he said.</p>
<p class="title">Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the government on Friday over an RBI report showing bank frauds have gone up by 15 per cent year-on-year in 2018-19, asking who is the guarantor allowing such "big bank frauds".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The number of cases of frauds reported by banks saw a jump of 15 per cent year-on-year basis in 2018-19, with the amount involved increasing by 73.8 per cent in the year, the Reserve Bank of India's annual report showed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In FY19, banking sector reported 6,801 frauds involving Rs 71,542.93 crore as against 5,916 cases involving Rs 41,167.04 crore reported in 2017-18.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Country's biggest banking institution RBI is saying that bank frauds are increasing right under the nose of the government. In 2018-19, this theft has increased," Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Banks have been duped of Rs 72,000 crore. But, who is the guarantor who is allowing such big bank frauds to occur," the Congress general secretary asked.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also hit out at the government over the rising number of bank frauds.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"'Loot & Scoot' in 'New India' as a complicit BJP govt looks the other way and the common man is taxed!" he said.</p>