Just came across following very informative / enlightening article ,
written by Shri Shantanu Nandan Sharma , Editor –
Economic Times
Extract :
…… is as much a failure of intelligence sharing as it’s a case of
connivance, greed, faulty audit and laxity on the part of the banking
regulator, RBI.
Does
the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) or any other agency have a robust IT system to
handle intelligence data gathered from across the country ?
Not
just that, according to the agency’s revised charter of 2003, the CEIB is the official think tank among the
intelligence agencies on issues relating to economic offences.
But
a reality check of the CEIB’s office in Delhi will tell you that it’s too small an organisation to be a national think
tank in economic intelligence
It does not have an IT system that
automatically registers each and every eco-nomic crime committed in every nook
and corner of the country. Nor does it receive the RBI’s inspection reports, which are
considered critical to analyse bank frauds, like the one in PNB.
The
problem, however, is not a lack of apparatuses but in the sharing of specific
intelligence inputs among a dozen agencies that at times work in silos. The challenge is to
spot new trends in economic crimes and deploy effective deterrence.
It
may well be a bigger money laundering case which only the ED can decipher.
But
what if that information is not passed on to ED because of the laxity
of state police or, possibly, turf battle.
But once there’s a central computer
system that automatically registers inputs, it will raise red flags.
Though
intelligence sharing does take place, there
are instances when key information gets stuck due to turf battles or perceived
notions that the information is too sensitive to be passed on. Also, the government
machinery is too slow to adapt to new technology and that’s where tech-savvy
fraudsters easily beat the slow sarkari machinery.
In his article, Shri Shantanu lists following agencies
:
·
CEIB
( Central Economic Intelligence Bureau )
·
DGGI
(
Directorate General of Goods and Services
Tax Intelligence
)
·
ED
( Enforcement Directorate
)
·
CBI
( Central Bureau of
Investigation )
·
NCB
( Narcotics Control Bureau
)
·
CBDT
( Central Board of
Direct Taxes )
·
FIU
( Financial Intelligence
Unit )
·
NCRB
( National Crime
Records Bureau )
·
DRI
( Directorate of
Revenue Intelligence )
·
SFIO
( Serious Fraud
Investigation Office )
·
NIA
( National Investigation
Agency )
·
·
EOW
( Economic Offence
Wings – State Police Agencies
)
·
Dear Shri
Shantanuji ,
I do hope the “ Powers that Be “ get to read and act
upon your suggestion for a CENTRAL / COMMON DATABASE ,
created and shared collaboratively , by all these agencies
I had made the same
suggestion some 4
YEARS ago
in my following blog and sent as emails to Cabinet Ministers / PM-EAC / NITI
Aayog
E - Governance? [ 03 April
2014 ]
https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2014/04/e-governance.html
===========================================
No comments:
Post a Comment