The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested another senior executive of the Punjab National Bank and claimed to have recovered documents related to Letter of Undertaking from 'chawl' as it continued its searches in connection with the $2 billion fraud.

Internal Chief Auditor (retd) Bishnubrata Mishra, who was responsible for concurrent audit for the period 2011-2015 at PNB Brady House branch, was arrested on Thursday, the agency said.

Punjab National Bank took to Twitter to refute reports of transferring 18,000 employees in wake of Rs 11,000 crore scam involving Nirav Modi.

In a clarification issued by the bank, PNB said that it had transferred a total of 1,415 employees since February 19.

MUMBAI: State-owned PNB on Thursday said it has followed lawful avenues to recover its dues following Rs 11,400 crore swindling of funds allegedly by jewellery designer Nirav Modi and associates.

The country's second largest public sector lender also reaffirmed that it has enough assets to meet any liability.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP, the auditor to Nirav Modi’s holding firm Firestar International Pvt Ltd (FIPL), has sought more information from the company after it came to light that Modi companies had defrauded Punjab National Bank of Rs 114 billion.

According to a source close to the development, Deloitte was the auditor to FIPL for two years and signed off the accounts for financial years ended March 2016 and March 2017.

The CBI is examining the balance sheets of 18 India-based subsidiaries of the Gitanjali group of firms, promoted by Mehul Choksi, to get a grip on the trail of funds the group took from banks on the basis of guarantees furnished by Punjab National Bank (PNB).

The agency on Sunday evening did searches at the Brady Road branch of PNB in Mumbai, and the operation is likely to continue till morning. CBI officials said the agency was questioning Gokulnath Shetty, a retired PNB official; Manoj Kharat, a serving one; and a signatory of a company run by Nirav Modi, the co-accused, apart from other officials of PNB.

Punjab National Bank (PNB) has told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that the Rs 114 billion scam could have been averted had officials of overseas branches of domestic banks raised the red flag.

Significantly, the Delhi-based public sector bank has not found any role of chartered accountants, statutory auditors, and empanelled valuers in the alleged scam in its in-house investigation, according to the bank’s submission to the CBI.

PNB Housing Finance (PNB HFL) is planning to raise $400 million through its maiden issue of masala bonds.

The money will be utilised to finance retail buyers/developers of affordable housing as well as developers of green buildings.

Punjab National Bank (PNB) has dipped 9% to Rs 133 in early morning trade on Thursday, extending its previous day’s 10% decline on BSE, after the state-owned bank said on Wednesday it had been defrauded of about Rs 114 billion by jeweller Nirav Modi, his maternal uncle Mehul Chinubhai Choksi, and other relatives through a clutch of companies they own.

India's Punjab National Bank said on Wednesday it had detected "fraudulent and unauthorised" transactions worth about $1.77 billion at one of its branches in Mumbai.

The bank said in a statement the transactions were "for the benefit of a few select account holders with their apparent connivance" and that "based on these transactions other banks appear to have advanced money to these customers abroad."

Punjab National Bank’s net profit rose 11.1 per cent to Rs 2.3 billion in the third quarter of the financial year due to higher provisioning for bad loans.

PNB had earned a net profit of Rs 2.1 billion in the year-ago quarter and Rs 5.6 billion in the quarter ended September 2017, when the growth rate stood at 2 per cent.

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