CA
2368 Points
Joined September 2007
1. Loans given by the foreign branches of the Indian banks were transferred into PNB's NOSTRO acccount. Transferring the money to Nirav Modi was the contingent liability for PNB. All the auditors are responsible to reconcile the transactions into the NOSTRO account.
2. All the LoU's were communicated through SWIFT. If the SWIFT transactions were not automatically captured into Finacle, manual checks (i.e. manual reconcilition) were necessary.
The statutory bank branch auditors and the central auditors of PNB are guilty of gross negligence becuase they failed to apply the SA and Guidance Notes of ICAI in their audit work.