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The Reserve Bank of India has asked all banks and financial institutions to furnish a suspicious transaction report to the Financial Intelligence Unit-India within seven days of such a transaction, said a notification from the central bank on Thursday. "The report must be furnished within seven days of arriving at a conclusion that a transaction, including attempted transaction, whether or not made in cash, or a series of transaction integrally connected are of suspiciou.. Full Article

Taking a serious note of Union Bank of India (UBI) not reporting high-value transactions to it, the government has asked the state-owned bank to immediately carry out an audit of all its branches to check for such large deposits that have gone unreported.The Income Tax department, during a probe into alleged money laundering by former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, had stumbled on a bank account at one of UBI's branches in Zaveri Bazar in Mumbai where approximately.. Full Article

Accounting regulator ICAI has started working with investigating agencies under the home ministry and the finance ministry to help them track down the flow of unaccounted money in the economy. Full Article