Canfin Homes Ltd: News about Fraud of Rs. 38.5 Cr by employees
26-07-2023

What has happened?

Canfin homes today reported to the exchanges that employees at its Ambala branch had committed a fraud of nearly Rs 38.53 Cr by transferring funds to different personal bank accounts. Management in their call with analysts clarified that this was done by misuse of cheque signing powers given to the managerial level employees of the branch.

There was no asset against which such disbursal was done and thus the amount of Rs 38.53 Cr (~20-25% of Quarterly PAT) is to be provisioned in the coming quarter. Company reported that this issue was out of scope of quality checks done after accusations of fraud last quarter.

The fraud happened over a period of more than a year wherein about 200 transactions were done with average size of ~Rs. 20 lakhs. This high amount of transfer of funds was more than 40% of the size of the branch portfolio.

Management carried the process of reconciliation for all the branches for previous 2 years and did not find this issue anywhere else. Centralised disbursement process was to be implemented so that this issue should not have occurred in the first place, it will be completed in coming months.

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