THE GREAT INDIAN BANK HEIST’ - Dr Subramanian Swamy with Journalist Shri J Gopikrishnan -Episode 285
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The episode discusses the massive financial scandal involving public sector banks in India, featuring insights from investigative journalist J Gopikrishnan.
"The Great India Bank Heist" | Witness of Witness, Episode 285 ₹29 lakh crore. That's $340 billion — more than India's entire defence, health, and education budgets combined — vanished from your public sector banks. Not in a single dramatic robbery, but systematically, methodically, and with powerful help from the inside. Investigative journalist J Gopikrishnan of The Daily Pioneer exposes the biggest financial scandal in India's history. Eleven PSU banks. Over 1000 court cases. Five fugitives living freely abroad on stolen money. And a CIBIL defaulters database that mysteriously went offline within 24 hours of this story breaking. The playbook was brazen: 21 identical loans from the same branch. Shell companies registered in servants' names. Borrowers using two different name spellings to fool CIBIL's automated checks. A bankruptcy code twisted to let brothers buy each other's collapsed empires for pennies on the rupee. And political patrons — sitting MPs — whose connections made it all possible. The names are familiar. Anil Ambani. Nirav Modi. Vijay Mallya. Era Group. Videocon. Bhushan. But the scale will stun you. This isn't just a story about fraud. It's about who…
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