Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Policy watch: P-notes: The big money laundering machine

....The RBI notification compelled banks and investors to cut their dollar positions. Curiously, nobody in the policy circles probed further. It was as if everyone knew that some FIIs had been short-selling the rupee in non-deliverable trades without prior formal sanction from P-note holders. It was as if someone powerful in the government had given them the go-ahead, confident that nobody would intervene. That is, till the RBI decided to pull the plug. P-notes were prevented from eroding the rupee.........

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