Sri Lanka, June 30 -- Nearly three months after National Development Bank (NDB) disclosed what became one of the largest fraud cases to hit a listed Sri Lankan bank, a forensic review has identified the suspicious transaction amount to be higher than what was initially disclosed.

In a filling to the Colombo Stock Exchange on Friday, NDB said Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP, which was appointed to conduct an independent forensic review, had submitted an interim report identifying suspicious transactions amounting to Rs.13.58 billion.

NDB stressed the interim report remains confidential and that only limited findings could be disclosed at this stage. The bank added that the observations contained in the report are preliminary and indi...