A new day and a new bank fraud happened in India. As per my understanding, cooperative banks are regulated by the RBI. RBI being a regulator could not detect such a big fraud under its nose. You need to
read this article to understand how much a bank can play with the money of its depositors.
Just imagine if such a level of fraud was done by local crypto exchanges. Every mainstream media would have covered it. They would have blamed the exchange & the crypto community for all the wrongdoing. They always forget one thing before doing their media trial which is checking the facts. Do you know how many Banking frauds have happened in the past?
Biggest Banking Frauds In the last 10 years,
there were 10 big banking frauds. These are the ones which were big. Think about those frauds that were of small amounts.
Such banking frauds in countries that are considered the first world, would have destroyed the reputation of a bank. That does not happen in India because Banks are everything and the government is never incorrect for most citizens.
Why Indians still believe cryptocurrency is fraudBitcoin & other crypto have been projected by mainstream media as a commodity to get rich quickly after 2017 ATH. In 2018 scammers and those doing illegal activities started using it as a medium to earn INR. The government, RBI picked it up as illegal without even doing research and stamped it as not safe for Indians. This is why still a big majority is not interested in Bitcoin or other cryptos.
RBI will only do what the government likes and where its interest lies. They will allow such fraud and when questioned they would say "We were aware but we were unable to prove it". It is a never ending cycle that might get broken by Bitcoin.