{"id":300820,"date":"2018-07-26T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300820"},"modified":"2018-07-26T14:57:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:57:19","slug":"pnb-fraud-case-pmla-court-summons-nirav-modi-mehul-choksi-in-sept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pnb-fraud-case-pmla-court-summons-nirav-modi-mehul-choksi-in-sept\/","title":{"rendered":"PNB fraud case:\u00a0PMLA Court summons\u00a0Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi in Sept\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300821 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mnm-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mnm-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mnm.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/>A Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Mumbai on July 26 has summoned absconding jeweler Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi in connection with the Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case\u00a0of over Rs 13,000 crore\u00a0and has asked them to appear before the court on September 25 and 26 respectively or be declared Fugitive Economic Offenders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Acting on a plea by the Enforcement Directorate in the PNB fraud case Nirav has been asked to appear before the special PMLA court on September 25 while Choksi is ordered to appear on September 26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">ED had recently moved the court seeking to declare the diamond traders as &#8216;fugitive economic offenders&#8217; and to confiscate their assets worth Rs 3,500 crore regarding the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PMLA Court move comes in the backdrop of reports that prime accused of PNB fraud case Choksi had moved to Antigua from the United States and got a local passport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Under the new Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, 2018, a fugitive economic offender is defined as \u201ca person against whom an arrest warrant has been issued in respect of a scheduled offence and who has left India so as to avoid criminal prosecution, or being abroad, refuses to return to India to face criminal prosecution\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Mumbai on July 26 has summoned absconding jeweler Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi in connection with the Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case\u00a0of over Rs 13,000 crore\u00a0and has asked them to appear before the court on September 25 and 26 respectively or be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3844,541,582,3236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300822,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300820\/revisions\/300822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}