July 3, 2018:
Interpol has issued a Red Corner Notice (RCN) against absconding diamantaire Nirav Modi, his brother Nishal Modi and his employee Subhash Parab on request of CBI, probing over $2 Billion PNB scam.
Notice was issued on June 29 but has been made public only on Monday by International Police Cooperation Agency, adding that it will make unhindered movement of Modi across border difficult and likely lead to his arrest.
Interpol has issued the RCN on the basis of the charge sheet filed by the CBI in a special court in Mumbai and the arrest warrant issued by the special judge JC Jagdale there.
In its Red Corner Notice issued against a fugitive, the Interpol asks its 192 member countries to arrest or detain the person if spotted in their countries after which extradition or deportation proceedings can begin.
Modi along with his wife Ami Modi, a US citizen, brother Nishal Modi, a Belgian citizen, and uncle Mehul Choksi, all accused in CBI FIRs in the case, had left the country in the first week of January, weeks before India’s biggest banking scam surfaced.
Nishal and Parab have also been charge sheeted by CBI along with Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi for alleged corruption and cheating.
Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi have refused to return India to join probe citing business and health reasons among others
In the RCN, Interpol has given details of all five passports of Modi,issued between May 2008 and May 2017, including that these passports have been cancelled by Government yet he has managed to travel on the basis of revoked and cancelled passports.
CBI has been designated for coordinating with Interpol, has provided it with four addresses of Nirav Modi in tony localities of New York --Manhattan, East Chester and Central and one of Dubai in Al Bayan along with his possible travels to Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Belarus, Brussels, New York, UAE among others, the sources said.
Source Hindustan Times
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