Banks probed for fake vouchers

Several employees of rural credit cooperatives in Shandong province have been placed under investigation by local police on suspicion of forging deposit vouchers amounting to 150 million yuan ($23.4 million), media reported on Monday.

An authentic voucher can be used to withdraw money.

Twenty-two depositors, 20 of them from Zhejiang province, deposited money in several cooperatives in Binzhou in 2014, according to China Central Television. But when depositors came to withdraw their money this year, they were told their vouchers were counterfeit and they couldn't get the money back.