{"id":301637,"date":"2018-08-20T10:49:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T10:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301637"},"modified":"2018-08-20T10:49:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T10:49:37","slug":"pnb-scam-uk-authorities-confirm-nirav-modis-presence-in-country-cbi-files-for-extradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pnb-scam-uk-authorities-confirm-nirav-modis-presence-in-country-cbi-files-for-extradition\/","title":{"rendered":"PNB scam: UK authorities confirm Nirav Modi\u2019s presence in country, CBI files for extradition"},"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=\"size-medium wp-image-299795 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nirav-modi-2-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirav-modi-2-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirav-modi-2-460x420.jpg 460w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/nirav-modi-2.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Fugitive diamantaire\u00a0Nirav Modi wanted in the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud, is in the United Kingdom (UK), the officials there have confirmed to India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the sources, the CBI has moved an extradition request to London through proper channels.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official, the UK authorities confirmed Nirav Modi&#8217;s presence in the country on Sunday via mail responding to the diffusion notice by the probe agency to the Interpol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier this month, Minister of State for External Affairs\u00a0VK Singh\u00a0had informed Parliament that the government had sent a request to the UK for extraditing Nirav Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India had cancelled the passport of Nirav Modi, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Nirav Modi from travelling to various countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirav, along with his uncle Mehul Choksi, is being probed in the fraud case by the CBI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirav, along with his family, left India weeks\u00a0before the details of the fraud came to light in January.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fugitive diamantaire\u00a0Nirav Modi wanted in the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud, is in the United Kingdom (UK), the officials there have confirmed to India. As per the sources, the CBI has moved an extradition request to London through proper channels.\u00a0\u00a0 According to a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official, the UK authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[435,3410,541,542,4283,543,2190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301637"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301638,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301637\/revisions\/301638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}