Cobrapost Sting

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  How the Government Was Punked. An Expose that Really Wasn't.

  Government officials were in a spin on Monday afternoon. A web portal which has in the past conducted sting operations, had announced a press conference the next day promising a big expose.

• Congress-post not Cobrapost, says BJP for Babri Masjid sting

  The BJP has complained to the Election Commission against a sting operation on the 1992 Babri Mosque demolition at Ayodhya, being released two days before the general election.

• 2013: Sting operations, bad loans hit all from SBI to Yes Bank

  From the country's largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI), to the youngest Yes Bank, lenders were fined for violating regulatory norms after sting operations exposed chinks in their armour.

• For just Rs. 50,000, MPs agree to lobby for fake foreign firm: Cobrapost sting

  Investigative website Cobrapost today claimed it has secretly filmed at least 11 MPs willing to recommend, for money, the case of a fictitious oil exploration company.

• How IT companies are using Facebook, Twitter to malign rivals: Cobrapost expose

  With the Internet emerging as the new political battlefront, a sting operation by website Cobrapost claims to expose how IT companies are using social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to help politicians build up fake fan bases and also malign rivals.

• No criminality in Cobrapost findings, says SBI

  Bank officials' advices of splitting deposits to evade taxes, as exposed in a sting operation by an online news portal, are "undesirable loose talks" but there is no apparent criminality, SBI chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said on Thursday.

• Cobrapost sting: KPMG to do forensic audit at Axis Bank

  Axis Bank has appointed top accounting firm KPMG to do a forensic audit, following a sting operation done by Cobrapost that alleged executives of the private lender had indulged in money laundering, the bank said on Wednesday.

• Not found any evidence of money-laundering so far: HDFC Bank

  Private sector lender HDFC Bank today said it has found "no evidence" of money laundering as alleged in a sting operation by Cobrapost, an online magazine.

• Systems to prevent money laundering in India perfect, says RBI

  The Reserve Bank today sought to downplay the money-laundering allegations against three private sector banks, saying the country has a "perfect" system to prevent such offences and that not a single such transaction took place in the sting operation.

• Banks start investigation process of money laundering allegations

  Days after a sting operation purportedly show bank officials help launder money, HDFC Bank today said it has hired independent audit firm for conducting forensic inquiry while Axis Bank initiated a probe into the matter. Meanwhile, another bank named in the sting operation Axis Bank said a thorough internal enquiry is already underway to look in ...

• Cobrapost expose: HDFC Bank's full statement

  After an expose on money-laundering carried out by news website Cobrapost, HDFC Bank which is one of the banks named in the sting operation issued a press statement saying "We are concerned at the allegations that have appeared in the media. The matter is being investigated on top priority..."