The agency received the complaints about the transactions detected by the public sector bank late last night, sources said. The complaints deal with fraudulent transactions reported from the bank's branches and the amount involved is over Rs 10,000 crore, the sources said.
The allegations are being looked into and future course of action will be decided soon, they said. The agency has refused to share any further details as it may hamper the investigation. Agency sources said Modi is already facing a CBI probe on a complaint from the Punjab National Bank.
Meanwhile, the bank had also intimated stock exchange BSE about the "fraudulent and unauthorized" transactions worth over USD 1771.69 million in one of its branches in Mumbai.
In its filing at the BSE, the PNB said the bank had detected some fraudulent and unauthorised transactions in a Mumbai branch.