WASHINGTON: Federal prosecutors are not pursuing a big portion of bank-fraud cases al a time when the FBI caseload of such investigations is increasing, says a General Accounting Office report released Sunday.

U.S. attorneys declined to prosecute more than half the cases investigated by the FBI in the last two years, the report by the congressional agency said,

And, it added, about one third of the cases not prosecuted involve allegations of fraud of $100,000 or more at banks and savings and loan institutions,

Article extracted from this publication >> October 30, 1992